Trying to learn oil painting, using water mixable. Surgery date 16 October to remove breast cancer.

[LiberalLoner]

46. Oh, wow, thank you! I did try oil painting before. And I guess did some paintings, but the

Solvents just got to me and I had to give up. I haven’t done many paintings at all so I feel I’m very much still a beginner. But thank you so much! ❤️❤️❤️

Oh I am so glad your friend beat the C monster and is still here!

My cancer masses are HER -, and strongly (over 90%) estrogen and progesterone receptor positive, so I am thinking I will be placed on those same endocrine drugs. But we will see, after my surgery, what the genetic testing says. They have so many advanced things today in medicine.

In my Mom’s day, back in 1970 when she had breast cancer, I don’t think they even had mammograms or anything, and they just got her into surgery and did a radical mastectomy, and gave her cobalt radiation treatments after. I remember the big scar she had and how her skin looked sunburned for a few months. I was 8. It had already spread to the lymph nodes and muscles and the doctor said she’d be gone within the year, but she beat it. Died thirty years later of a heart attack. Cancer never came back.

So I am telling myself I will be like my Mom and beat this cancer too.