TNBC & Pregnant

Hi all, 

I know this is an old thread, but since it helped my wife and me a lot, I would like to share our story with you...

I'm 32, and my wife is 29.5 years old. She got pregnant (with twins) in March. It was her first pregnancy, medically assisted (Clomifene).

In the mid July she found out she has some "suspicious cells" in her right breast. Immediate surgery was advised by her doctors and was performed on July 24th. PHD was quite bad (TNBC, T2NxMx, Ki-67 90% hist&nucl grad III). This was the time I googled around for TNBC and saw this forum and this thread...
On August 6th she had masectomy(with skin and nipple sparing). The PHD results were better (lymph nodes 0/16, no traces of cancer in tested skin & nipple tissue), with optimistic prognosis from doctors.
Nevertheless, her oncologist suggested to start chemo as soon as possible, but later decided to wait 3 weeks, until beginning of the 3rd trimester. The original plan was: 6 total chemos (AC - every three weeks) in order: 3 chemos,  then birth, then 3 more chemos.

The first chemotherapy was at September 14th, second one last Friday (Oct. 5th).
 In the meantime, she went to her regular gyno exam, and was kept in hospital, because she was "opened" too much. There she received that second chemo.

 This morning (30weeks+6days of pregnancy) she got contractions that doctors managed to stop, but later decided to send her to urgent C-section. So now I'm a proud father of Jakov and Lovro (Croatian variants of Jacob and Lawrence) 

 The boys are quite small (about 1,4kg each) but considering they are twins born a little more than 2 months earlier, this was expected. They have quite a lot of hair (their mom lost most of it in the last two weeks or so). Except low weight, and a smaller number of white blood cells, there are no other traces of chemo-related problems at the moment (the doctors said that it was quite safe to take chemo in 2nd or 3rd trimester). Nevertheless, a little prayer, or crossed fingers are welcome… 

 My wife is feeling ok, looks a little bit exhausted, but is unbelievably strong and brave, she went through all this trouble very courageously.

 Although we "survived" many aggravating situations on our way, there is still "many miles of the road" in front of us... first, the babies need to fight their way in the incubators, then my wife needs to recover from C-section and undergo another 4 chemos, and finally we have to hope for the best in the future...

This forum helped us when we were in a really rough moments, and I would like to thank you all very very much for that.

I’ll keep you informed of the progress…

 Tomislav.

hi, just a short update...

Boys are ok, still in intensive care of course, but doing well. Lovro has some smaller problems with lungs (had to wear an oxygen mask for a few days), but except that, he is fine. They gained some weight (now are around 1650g), and nurses started feeding them with bottle. 

My wife went to her 3rd chemo on friday....  so far so good.
steve, thanks for PM, I forwarded your address to her, she will send you an email.

Scott, how are your wife and the little princess?

take care,
Tomislav.

again, a short update:

Twins are doing very well, they are more than 5 months old now, weighting over 6kg, and except few smaller problems related to their 2 months earlier birth, they are fine. Eating, sleeping and filling the diapers all the time... 

My wife finished her chemo in January, made few tests (CA 15-3 before chemo was 36, after chemo 25.8, and few days ago it was 11), ultrasound etc... so far so good  Oh yes, her hair is growing rapidly again, she has more hair than kids, and soon will have more than me 

T.

Jagy,