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Rhonda Sanderson
Chicago West Loop
Founder of premier PR firm specializing in franchising for 27 years-now battling breast cancer and working all along!
Interests: My child, my dogs, my staff, my friends, my colleagues and not lying down and taking it when I have been dealt a dirty hand!
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Birthday is a Bowling Blast and Coincides with the End of Radiation
Posted Apr 2, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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Last Day of Radiation and Not a Minute Too Soon!!
Posted Mar 25, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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9 more "radiates"--then I will glow for good
Posted Mar 16, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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Mar 16, 2010
Radiation Burns Like Hell!!
Posted Mar 8, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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Dinner with Friends Helps Healing
Posted Mar 1, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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Radiation Starts--oh Good Times
Posted Feb 8, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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Final Chemo Round Still No Picnic!
Posted Jan 7, 2010 at Almost Stage 3
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3rd Chemo Treatment is a BITCH!
Posted Dec 28, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Be the CEO of Your Care!
Posted Dec 18, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Reality, Staff Support and More
Posted Dec 14, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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What Keeps you Going-Especially During the Holidays!
Posted Dec 7, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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To Wig or Not to Wig
Posted Dec 3, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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I thought cancer was bad until I got lymphadema!
Yes, this is the most hideous of all side effects if you ask me!! (who did?) When you have damaged lymph nodes, or you have them removed, very common with a diagnosis of cancer, your lymphatic system is immediately put on HAYWIRE status...lymphatic fluid doesn't get drained properly and swelling occurs in the affected area--in my case the left chest wall and arm all the way down to the hand. Much of mine is due to the scar tissue that formed from the removal of 21 lymph nodes! So it now looks like I have a Mickey Mouse glove on... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Second Round of Chemo Blows
Posted Nov 25, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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You Think You Have Bad Hair Days!
Posted Nov 24, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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New Study Shows Mammograms Don't See Through Dense Breasts! DUH!
Yeah like I was saying! Regular screening mammograms do not work on dense breasts (read breasts with lots of tissue and little slack or sag) and this is why a better, more thorough test needs to become the standard---and one shouldn't have to fight so hard to get a sonogram or a digital mammogram or better. Certainly I don't believe in discouraging self-exams considering I found both my lumps--one in 2007 which was a cyst and THE BIG ONE in June of this year that a mammogran magically missed one month prior! Let's go people--it's the second leading cause of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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It's Exhausting!!
What I want to share is the pure exhaustion you feel the subsequent weeks after treatment. This is probably why they give it to you every third week--so you can recover. It feels exactly like what it is--your cells are dying and with that hopefully, the cancer. I am trying to walk through the tiredness when possible. John and I go to East Bank Club and one thing you can do for yourself is to build muscle. When you have lymphadema, as I do, then you need to be careful to NOT overdo on the side of the lymph node... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Loyalty Like No Other!
Posted Nov 10, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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One Last Night Out!
Posted Nov 5, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Chemo--oh yeah you gotta love it!
Posted Nov 3, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Tomorrow
Nov. 2: After having an open wound for 3 months I finally start chemo tomorrow. I am proud because I AM THE ONE who closed the wound by following the strict instructions of the visiting wound care specialist. I have been tending the wound myself since late September and have gotten it closed or I would NOT have been able to move forward since chemo would have nearly guaranteed an infection of an open wound. The old adage "if you want something done right..." certainly applies here. Had to argue to get the wound care specialist to visit my home... Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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A Troublesome Wound
Posted Oct 29, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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Complications
Once I was over the shock and the anger (although every day I get a fresh dose of that) I was referred to a well known surgeon in the Chicago area. I waited 3 hours in his office until he gave me the hideous biopsies--don't let people tell you those are nothing either! Big long needles in breast and one in armpit to see if it's already in lymph nodes--which puts you in a whole other stage and danger and leaves you with profound affects after surgery and the danger that it has spread through your entire body. That's why... Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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After the Shock
Ok, it's important to realize that you go through (or I did) similar stages of grief that you always hear about concerning a death. So, in my case, fear, anger, denial, sadness and then acceptance. Fear because the radiologist I had been using since 2002 pointed to the screen and said "there's your cancer"! And a pit in my stomach developed-then anger because he had just missed this in a mammogram about 60 days before this with the comment "I don't write the orders" (because a mere screening mammogram would not catch this with my dense breasts) Denial because he... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2009 at Almost Stage 3
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