Team Bernadine Fighting Breast Cancer

Team Bernadine Fighting Breast Cancer Bernadine has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Triple Negative Breast Cancer. An Aggressive Carcinoma.

29/07/2026

Yesterday was 4 years since my first biopsy diagnosing the cancer. It's weird how something can feel so far away and yet so recent.

Mammogram went well. Except having to smash my tender ribs against that giant machine a few times for them to be as accu...
11/05/2026

Mammogram went well. Except having to smash my tender ribs against that giant machine a few times for them to be as accurate as possible. All good until May next year 🎉

30/04/2026

This morning I went for an oncology visit. My second 6 month stretch. It went well and I managed to finish nice and early today. Came home and celebrated with a very relieved afternoon nap. Mammo is on the 11th and then I really can breathe easier for another 6 months.

11/11/2025

Another oncology checkup done and dusted. This was my first 6 month stretch and it flew by. Bloods all good, even the thyroid seems to be behaving and levels are normal. I am even finally starting to feel like the chemo side effects are clearing up, finally. So much less pain and discomfort and mental fog. So now the 6 month gap between visits is the new normal. I am so glad.

27/05/2025

Today was my 3 monthly oncologist check up. After a very long wait the lovely doctor told me I can now stretch my visits out to every 6 months. A gigantic milestone that I am super chuffed about. The news was as exciting as the happy results from my mammogram biopsy. This has been a good month.

But then the accounts woman tells me I have a nearly R4000 amount outstanding. So I burned over 4600 steps trying to find the proper accounts department that is in yellow block 4th floor but you have to access it from red block or something and then it wasn't there anymore, it moved to admin block on the 6th floor of whatever colour block. Turns out you pay for the medicine yourself. BUT they never charged us for it in 2022 and had written it off. Except now they have undone that and I must pay it again. They very kindly allow payment terms and the admin staff were absolutely lovely too.

15/05/2025

Tuesday I had to have that repeat mammogram. The news was not good. I had to do another painful biopsy right there. The scar tissue was actually larger than before, they called it an "increasing mass component".

Two days of panic, fear, forcing away negativity, deep breathing, trying not to cry, planning for more treatment and how to manage life around that all over again not even 2 years after my last cancer treatment.

The doc just called and to my absolute delight it's still plain old scar tissue.

17/01/2025

Another Oncology check up done. He just said to wait and see what the next mammogram says and will take whatever it is from there. So no real news and I will do my best to just stay neutral. There was a new phlebotomist who was total rubbish because she bruised my hand after slapping it hard to find a vein. The upside is I saw a new doc who gave me some strong pain meds and a good Vit B6 to help with the painful neuropathy. So yay. Back again in May after the mammogram.

13/11/2024

Last week I went for another mammogram. They have found what they call a distortion around the op site, but thank goodness no mass. Now we wait for May to see if it's something or not. The blood tests show all is still good though. Staying positive.

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