Beauty Through The Beast
Beauty Through The Beast
Fighting Breast Cancer with Style
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Fighting Breast Cancer With Style

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About Chiara D’Agostino

I WANT TO FULFILL MY WILDEST DREAMS

After the tumultuous journey of a life-changing experience - cancer, I am ready for the next positive adventure. I want to REALLY live, not merely pay my bills; pursue something with intention, that I LOVE- that makes me enthusiastically stay up at night and put on my heels in the morning and continue with fervor! What does that look like?

 
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My head is pounding from three days of gamma knife. Trying to take opioids and atavan and smooth move so I can take a shit but it’s been three days so far. What a joy. This is the game: how you doing? Okay? Good? Repeat until it wears off in about three days then it repeats again. I’ve been telling people I need help but it doesn’t seem to stick. I’ve come to terms people are just too busy no matter why. So, since I’m isolating and bared and alone to tears, I need to figure something out. Not something happy - because I’m supposed to suffer. This happiness things are so few and far between. Any day now a new tenant willmove in - thanks to the peopIe share blood with, and I will guarantee you that they will be epic at slamming doors and ignoring me. This is my ptsd. It’s not fucking funny. I really don’t know whether I should talk more or shit the fuck up because I know people love to see me suffer. I’ll figure out something because my life is hell, I’m depressed, alone and it’s a broken record. You know when you hVe that friend you can talk to? I don’t have that. We are all just polite. And now I’m ducking raging and not polite anymore. Jesus fucking Christ get off your asses and do something. Two dead people in my falling and three attempted. Chiara
I’ve been through gamma knife Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Pounding excruciating headaches. I’m alone.as I always am. The Uber driver that was supposed to drive me told me at an hour before going to sleep he wouldn’t take me, unless he got paid. Someone else offered to pay him but they aren’t responsible so instead I get the message saying I won’t get a ride to gamma knife. I honestly wonder where people are made of. The insanity ignorance and insensitivity. Of course he should be getting paid but why wait an hour before and then threaten to not take me? I already have NO one taking me to gamma knife, can I at least have a fucking somewhat normal urbar driver? My favorite meal is pad tai with shrimp. I order it from door dash all the time but not on Friday’s! Nope! No one has an answer as to why they don’t deliver Friday nights. My head is pounding and all I wanted to day was wait until 5pm so I could get the pad thai and hopefully eat it without throwing it up. I I’ve had gamma knife three times this week. People cared about the first two times. Ow that it’s over and I’m alone now one cares again. And we’ve been waiting 5 months to rent this apartment my mom is ready to rent. People I share blood with just let it sit there as they galavanted around parts of the world. Mom’s home with dementia and congestive heart failure. That man is the most retched egal man I know- field with humerus. I was going to find a lovely tenant to help my mom and my self and instead the egomaniac but some dog on the front porch to sell the apartment and the lady of leisure says “I don’t want to get it in the middle of you too.” My family is disgusting. I feel like I was born in vitro with trauma and I’ve had trauma ever since and I’m just done trying to figure it out. Tired of therapy. Tired of fake people. Tired of being alone. I’m in full-blown depression. Thanks for your notes. But I want friends. Thanks for the sound bites but I need people. And I don’t have it and I know I won’t. This is my life- born to suffer and to be around my mother for control and company. I am tired. A headache like you won’t believe. Starving. And I don’t want your platitude.
Fourth gamma knife surgery for me. I started having brain MRI’s last June. I was on a clinical trial at @rutgerscancerinstnj where they failed to notice the brain tumors and dropped me from the trial. My tumor markers were rising so we did a brain mri and found out. Since then I switched to @columbiamed for treatment for #metastaticbreastcancer including #braintumors. The first season I had was with the bolts in my brain and that was hell. I cried so hard at the pain and the doctors kept screwing away at my brain even when I asked them to let me catch a breath. So I was happy to move to a better Hospital, @columbiamed. This is my third gamma knife done at Columbia Hospital@and they use a soft mask on me which is so much less brutal. This session is an especially tough one as the temporal lobe that I found 6 weeks ago has from significantly, including edema. The other brain tumors will@be removed as well. So instead of being treated in one day, we are trying something different and, with the guidance of Dr Silvia Formenti, we are adding atezolizumab, an immunotherapy, while doing gamma knife. #fingers crossed. #alone #scared #thisnevergetseasier #metastaticbreastcancer #braintumors #inspiration #stereotacticradiosurgery #breastcanceraintpink #fuckcancer #beauty #beautythroughthebeast
#repost @sabine_poleperfekt ・・・ Let’s give Dense Breast Tissue and this medical misery a Face.... My friend Chiara @beautythroughthebeast, who has been fighting triple negative metastatic breast cancer for four years, and I have/had Dense Breast Tissue!!! And we thought it’s important run a mini campaign for women! Btw. I didn’t retouch my nipples because they are real. Dense Breasts are real.... Chiara didn’t retouch her scars. They are real as well. - # Info Part 2 👍 Dense Breasts can increase your risk of developing breast cancer, so it is important that women know if their breasts are dense so they can receive appropriate cancer screenings. - Here are some more facts about dense breasts, so that each women is aware of it and can ask their docs. - Typically, the fatty breast tissue will appear dark on an X-ray, and cancerous lesions will appear white. However, Breast tissue that is very dense will also appear white on an X-ray. This similarity in appearance can make identifying potentially cancerous lesions more difficult. It is also possible that a doctor might diagnose a particular dense area of tissue as a tumor only to find that it is, in fact, an area of increased breast density. Different imaging techniques, such as an MRI scan, may be required to accurately diagnose dense breast tissue or tumors. Doctors may recommend an ultrasound and a 3D mammography. ### Source: Medical News Today.com Photo - Have your breasts checked!! ##- My friend Chiara @beautythroughthebeast is the hardest breast cancer fighter I have met! 💪👍💪💪💕 -## Photocredit: #scfotografia - #breastcancer #breastcancersurvivor #breastcheckup #densebreasttissue #areyoudense #cancer #health #womensupportwomen #friends #photoshoot #nevergiveup #keepfighting #fitness #polesport #mammography #mammographyscreening #3dmammography #medical #raceforthecure #poleathlete #gym #friends #freethenipple #beauty #beautythroughthebeast #doublemastectomy #wwwpoleperfektcom