Latinas/Hispanics with Breast Cancer

 VVN, nice to hear from women of different points of view , I am not a feminist, I am very traditional,but have friends that are , I do not  mark the little box for Latins, in forms or questions . When I attended college in my time, it was not done,I prefer than since I chose a second country not to be put in a pre conceived box, because our cultures united only by a common language  have lots of differences in foods, that I enjoy learning, music, values, treatment of women, etc  even t words have different meaning in different countries, sometimes we can insult with a word that means something else in ones country, and gets funny when we speak about vegetables and produce.

I have lived all over the world, attended boarding school in England, British Boarding school in Santiago Chile.  I have friends all over, I think that we should not accept a label as we are a "new race"that is given only in the USA. I dislike to be used politically.

 I love to learn from others, and in my present career I have the chance of meeting people of many places that are facing cancer, finally in many places people can see that there is life after the big C.

It is nice that this is a melting pot support group, the larger one and this smaller  one, maybe we can also exchange cooking recipes, by the way , even that  I am a long term survivor, I know I am not out of the woods, and at present I am living with non melanoma skin cancer.

Hello everybody, hope all of  you are feeling better, Vielka, I will pop from time to time, I have a very stressful job, I am working lately more with pediatric cancer patients and transplants. I agree to disagree, this is what makes the world and people more interesting.

 I also was very sick with chemo, nothing worked for nausea, vomiting and blisters in my mouth and throat. I had friends that did not have not even nausea. My hearth goes to the ones going though it. In Spanish "Un mal necesario" that is chemo.

All my patients speak only Spanish,or the parents, they need a lot of support,I admire how they face this difficult time.

It gets to me,but I think also it makes me appreciate more ,because  to have a child sick is the hardest thing to face. You take care.

bump, yes we need to share our stories!  i'm from Cali, no spanish, shame on me.  I am involved in a study re: the growing incidence of bc among latinas.  Sorta scarey..my mom was er+ her2+, she discovered it at the age of 70, she is 84 now.  I am very glad I found this forum.

Sorry about it, in 20 years I had several biopsies and removal of microcalcifications that were taken out on time.

I think that having had BC my doctors are more careful on the follow up and it is found on time.

There also is a group here with second cancers.

Hope all goes well.

Buenas y Saludos a todas,

Encontre este forum, pero veo que no tiene actividad desde Enero 2013. Yo so de Miami, descendencia Cubana nacida aqui.

Tengo un mes desde la doble mastectomia salvando piel y la area del peson/con expandores y me removierion 13 nodos del lado izquierdo, recien hace 4 dias tuvieron que abrir las izquierda limpiar el vacio y poner un expandor nuevo por una bacteria. So empiezo de nuevo de ese lado. Todavia no he empesado la chemo. Tengo cita con O en 10/11. Mi diagnosis fue de IDC o C invasivo de 1 cm con una pequena micro mestastisis a un nodo.

Si alguien tiene algun interes en seguir este forum tanto en ingles como espanol or spanglish, dejenme saber.

Perdonen las faltas de otografia.

Les deseo salud y felicidad en estos momentos.

Vivian

Enerva,

Estas en lo cierto, en Miami es poco comun y aun son pocos los medicos que la ofrecen. Te pregunto si usted se hizo la mastectomia porque rads? A mi me habian dicho que con mastectomia no tenia que hacerme rad en el pecho solo chemo. Pero si me dijieron que si habian mas de tres nodos positivo entoce hacian rads en la axila. Tuvo que hacer chemo? Yo necesito porque soy triple positiva por estrogeno,progesterona y her positiva.

De donde eres ? Te escribo mas adelante al email, cuando tenga acesso a la pc.

Buenas Noche

Vivian

Enerva, Como estas?

No se preocupe de la otografia. Si te es mas facil tambien hablo ingles. Manana tengo primera cita con oncologo y sabre que me recomiendan de chemo o de rad. He leido mucho aqui y hay muchas mujeres con mastectomia que reciben rad. Tengo entendido que cuando hagas el camio pueden arreglar/ayudar algun dano causado por rads. Yo estoy pensando hacerme el DIEP flap, donde te hacen como un tummy tuck y usan la grasa de la barriga para rellenar los senos. Pero eso sera para el ano que viene, posiblemente en verano. Me da chance de bajar una cuantas libritas que tengo de mas. Por mi tumor ser positivo en todo tengo que tomar el herceptin tambien por un ano y tambien una partilla para bloquear los receptores de estrogeno. Canada, usted esta en invierno, mandanos un poco de frio por favor .

Buenas noche

Vivian

bump

Hola buen día casi nadie chatea x aqui

Les envío un abraso y mucho coraje y suerte a todas con sus tratamientos