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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">HER2 who knows </title><subtitle type="html" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/atom</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/atom" /><generator uri="http://telligent.com" version="12.1.2.21912">Telligent Community (Build: 12.1.2.21912)</generator><updated>2024-06-21T08:52:55Z</updated><entry><title>It’s a lot more nuanced than that…</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/it-s-a-lot-more-nuanced-than-that" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/it-s-a-lot-more-nuanced-than-that</id><published>2024-08-23T04:35:09Z</published><updated>2024-08-23T04:35:09Z</updated><content type="html">I write this blog after crying to nurse in hospital.
This blog will be about how I&amp;rsquo;ve been feeling post mastectomy post being told the cancer has been removed.
4th June, that&amp;rsquo;s the date I had my mastectomy (post chemo) now I already blogg...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/it-s-a-lot-more-nuanced-than-that"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721666&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="depression" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/depression" /><category term="Hospital" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Hospital" /><category term="Removing the breast" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Removing%2bthe%2bbreast" /></entry><entry><title>Hospital review, Japan edition (food and care)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/hospital-review-japan-edition-food-and-care" /><link rel="enclosure" type="image/jpeg" length="2451163" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cfs-file/__key/telligent-evolution-components-attachments/01-41837-00-00-00-72-16-62/IMG_5F00_2319.jpeg" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/hospital-review-japan-edition-food-and-care</id><published>2024-08-21T03:28:54Z</published><updated>2024-08-21T03:28:54Z</updated><content type="html">Hi all,
A lot of people ask me &amp;lsquo;how&amp;rsquo;s the food?&amp;rsquo; When they hear about me staying in hospital. This is my second time being hospitalized here so I&amp;rsquo;ve got a pretty good understanding of things now.&amp;nbsp; ️ The price
I won&amp;rsquo;...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/hospital-review-japan-edition-food-and-care"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721662&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="Hospital" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Hospital" /><category term="Garden" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Garden" /><category term="insurance" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/insurance" /></entry><entry><title>Tissue expander removed!</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander-removed" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander-removed</id><published>2024-08-17T09:01:19Z</published><updated>2024-08-17T09:01:19Z</updated><content type="html">Hi all,
quick recap for those (probably most reading) who haven&amp;rsquo;t read the previous posts&amp;nbsp;

I&amp;rsquo;m having all treatment in Japan.
I&amp;rsquo;ve had 6 rounds and Chemo followed by a mastectomy in June&amp;nbsp;
at the time of the mastectomy I h...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander-removed"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721657&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="Hospital" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Hospital" /><category term="Removing the breast" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Removing%2bthe%2bbreast" /><category term="infection" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/infection" /><category term="mastectomy" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/mastectomy" /></entry><entry><title>I'm going flat (tissue expander result)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/i-m-going-flat-tissue-expander-result" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/i-m-going-flat-tissue-expander-result</id><published>2024-08-13T11:18:03Z</published><updated>2024-08-13T11:18:03Z</updated><content type="html">Hi all,
so, follow up appointment today.
I walked into the room and the doctor was already clutching a file with available dates for surgery.
She explained since the tissue expander still is not settling so we have to remove it, regarding reconstruct...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/i-m-going-flat-tissue-expander-result"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721648&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="reconstruction" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/reconstruction" /><category term="swelling" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/swelling" /><category term="infection" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/infection" /></entry><entry><title>Tissue expander complications continue (rare)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander-complications-continue-rare" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander-complications-continue-rare</id><published>2024-08-12T07:50:54Z</published><updated>2024-08-12T07:50:54Z</updated><content type="html">Hi all,
Honestly not much of an update since my last post.&amp;nbsp;
About two weeks ago I feared the tissue expander had become exposed under my plaster, it just felt different so I decided to check it...
I removed the thick foam plaster and I THOUGHT I...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander-complications-continue-rare"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721643&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="reconstruction" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/reconstruction" /><category term="abroad" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/abroad" /><category term="Hospital" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Hospital" /><category term="sleeping" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/sleeping" /><category term="implants" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/implants" /><category term="mastectomy" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/mastectomy" /></entry><entry><title>Tissue expander - complications!</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander---complications" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander---complications</id><published>2024-08-04T11:29:53Z</published><updated>2024-08-04T11:29:53Z</updated><content type="html">Hi all,
My last post was the 26th June and I had started my saline injections in to my tissue expander.&amp;nbsp;
The plan was to go back two weeks later for the next one. Well that didn&amp;#39;t happen.
I was experiencing some pain which turned out to be a...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/tissue-expander---complications"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721637&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="reconstruction" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/reconstruction" /><category term="Breast cancer" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Breast%2bcancer" /><category term="implants" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/implants" /></entry><entry><title>Saline injection</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/saline-injection" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/saline-injection</id><published>2024-06-26T12:53:00Z</published><updated>2024-06-26T12:53:00Z</updated><content type="html">Just as I thought I was getting into this blogging thing... I realised my two recent entries have not posted for whatever reason!So that means you&amp;#39;ve missed out on the mastectomy story and how I was feeling so low yesterday , spoilers; it got pre...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/saline-injection"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721545&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author></entry><entry><title>The Who, Where and Why</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/the-who-where-and-why" /><id>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/the-who-where-and-why</id><published>2024-06-21T07:52:55Z</published><updated>2024-06-21T07:52:55Z</updated><content type="html">The Who:
I&amp;#39;m 35 years old. I&amp;#39;m from the North of England.
I moved to Japan in 2017 and been here ever since.
Where:&amp;nbsp;
In December last year I was diagnosed with HER2 breast cancer in my left breast.&amp;nbsp;
The doctors assumed I&amp;#39;d want ...(&lt;a href="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/posts/the-who-where-and-why"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/aggbug?PostID=721543&amp;AppID=41837&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Pichan</name><uri>https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/caddb4f7f0ed40d7be958b15df108767</uri></author><category term="tumour" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/tumour" /><category term="Breast cancer" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Breast%2bcancer" /><category term="Removing the breast" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/Removing%2bthe%2bbreast" /><category term="travel" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/travel" /><category term="mastectomy" scheme="https://community.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-blogs/b/her2-who-knows/archive/tags/mastectomy" /></entry></feed>