round 3 instead of round 2

Well just after I decided to blog about my second round with breast cancer I was told that I have it again.
That it has mastastized to my sternum. I thought I was literally going to puke when the Doctor called me and said it was cancer again. I felt like I just got done with it. Wait. I did just get done with it. I had finished my last chemo treatment in Sept 2011. They say it can take up to a year to really feel better from it. I think it was about the middle of August that I realized I could do a days work out in the yard and not feel horrible for it physically. Now 2 days work still to much.

I noticed back in June a sore spot on my sternum.  I had just returned form girls weekend in Bend and while I was there I got my boaters license. My sister and I took our 20 foot pontoon boat out on the Deschuttes river. Oh what a amazing time we had I will never forget it. We got it back to the dock and on to the trailer. I had to wench it up on to it the last little bit. My sister wanted to do it for me, but I knew I could do it. When I felt the pain a couple of days later I was pretty sure where it came from.

I talked to my oncologists nurse in early July and said that I had a spot that was hurting and she told
 me to call my plastic surgeon. His Nurse told me to take some anti inflammatory. I did that for about a week and it still hurt. I called the oncologists office again and they had me come in and see the nurse. ( should have seen the Dr) She said that she could not feel anything and had me get a xray of my chest. The results came back that no cancer was in my ribs there. Great news. for about a week and then the old familiar feeling that something was wrong came back. This time I saw my plastic surgeon. He felt the lump and said that it was probably a inflammation to take some anti inflammatory meds for 10 days. I did that and it was bigger. SOOOO I stared back with my primary care physician. He thought it was arthritis. REALLY???? I just had chemo less than 12 months ago you don't want to look into it any more. He felt if I would feel better about it we could do a CT scan. So the next week I had a ct scan. That said indeed there is something there. So the following week I had a ultra sound that said OH yes its there and it is not a liquid filled cyst. SO I had a MRI and that said to have a Biopsy. That is when I got the call. Yes it is cancer.
So I have had another MRI of my brain a bone scan another CT scan of my body and then another one of just my neck. So far they believe it is contained in my sternum area.
I had surgery on Wed and they took out my mass along with a tentacle that was going between my ribs. Now I am waiting to see what kind of margins they got and in about 3 weeks I will start 6 1/2 weeks of radiation 5 days a week. I have never had this before, but compared to the chemo I have had. It should be pretty easy.
I will add more as news comes in . Could be pretty boreing.