Adoption After Breast Cancer or Clomid Before Breast Cancer

DanielleSurvivorSince03-09

I am new here and there are so many pages of discussions so I apologize if this topic exists elsewhere on these discussion boards (I haven't found a search capability?) but I am wondering if anyone else has adopted since their breast cancer diagnosis or if anyone took Clomid before being diagnosed?  Here's a little about me....

Before being diagnosed with breast cancer, I underwent about four years of fertility issues.  My husband and I underwent several fertility treatments including several rounds of Clomid and artificial insemination.  I actually became pregant in March of last year.  That's when my second lump appeared - this time in my armpit.  I had another lump already (well actually it was more like a ripple, a couple of lumps run together) that went misdiagnosed for 8 months prior.  My gynecologist told me the one in my armpit was hormonal from the pregnancy and the ripply one was my breast impant (which I got in 2008 electively).  I miscarried after only a few weeks and the lump never went away.  I asked about it and was again told not to worry.  I watched a Dr. Oz show on Oprah about medical mistakes and after watching the show insisted on a mammogram, which was how I was finally diagnosed.  I was diagnosed with stage 2B Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, grade 3, HER2+ ER+, with lymph node involvement the day before my 31st bday.  I underwent chemo (Taxotere, Carboplatin and Herceptin) first, then surgery (lumpectomy downgraded from mastectomy after responding so well to chemo) and axillary node dissection, then radiation and now Tamoxifen.  After getting a good pathology report from the surgery, we signed up with an adoption consultant and actually picked up our little precious son 3 weeks later! 

Just wondering if anyone else on here has adopted since breast cancer or if they have similar history of Clomid before breast cancer?