For those starting chemo in June

I've been lurking lately.
Paula,that just SUCKS! and I'd me mad too! I'll be praying for you.
Did Nathan catch more than seaweed while fishing?
Mary- Somethings- like husbands- will never change. At least your's TRIES to fix things.
Janie- glad your job is going well... we all deserve that.
The triathlon went well last month. Finished it inless than I thought I would. Took a tourof Michigan to see #1 son and did a bunch of wine tasting, biking and swimming in 2 of the Great Lakes. Then we took the ferry back to WI. Something we kept saying would be fun, but we never did it... great sunset.
Renee

P.J. hope you get some good news. I am waiting to hear from you. Mary

Well, saw the onc and the surgeon today. Onc is being very noncommittal until I get all my scans done. CT this afternoon, then bone and MUGA, hopefully, tomorrow. Surgeon says she thinks it's just local and can be taken care of pretty easily. She's been wrong just about every time, tho, but for now I'm going with her optimism.

Apparently, the thing was outisde the field of radiation, but the chemo apparently was a bust. But I guess they could still radiate the area (whee).

Hope you guys are OK. They're also going to retest me for HER status, as that can change, apparently. Great.

Ooh, Janie, have fun with that oral surgery. Hope it goes well and isn't real painful.

CT scan came back clean! Still bone scan and MUGA to go, but I'm not sweating those as much. I guess after those come back (clean/OK) we decide what to do.

Mary, Renee, have a good one.

Have a good Benadryl snooze, Mary. Hope that Herceptin's kicking butt for both you and Janie.

I'm about to head to bed myself. Got to get back into school mode. Starts Monday.... I feel SOOOO much better than I did a few hours ago. Much relief.

YEAH Paula on the CT scan. I agree with the others if your onc has always been wrong- he's due to be right this time. When you are here for Christmas we have to meet. You'll need some coffee, hot tea, or hot chocolate at that time of the year.
Nathan starts school next week already. wow that seems so early, but I know it always made my daily activities much easier. Still praying for you.
Janie, I hope your oral surgery is not bad,just ask for lots of drugs!
Mary, we need a laugh- what has honey done now?
Renee

Well girls I worked Fri. 7 a.m. to today 1:30 p.m.. I should say I donated the time. Well my hubby is in 7th. heaven. His shed came Thursday, chemo day. He was up at 6 a.m. waiting on the guy to bring and build it at 7 a.m. I was off to work before he got here and then I went for herceptin and hubby dropped me off and picked me up and I came home and laid on the couch and went right to sleep. I heard some voices as the grandsons were here to view the castle/shed building and the guy building it came in to go to the bathroom but I was too sleepy to open my eyes until about 5:00 p.m. I awoke and with my eyes half open I stumbled in my drunken benadryl stuper to the kitchen window to see where everyone was. I saw a bright light and in this bright light was a "GOD" all sweaty and muscles buldging from every inch of his young tanned body. I stood there wondering how perfect his 6 pack abs. were and he bent over to grab a power nailer and his gluteus were fine too(butt). I then came to reality and saw my hubby sitting all alone on the deck watching as patiently as he could and I know he wanted it done yesterday but he was content. I felf really sorry for my hubby out there all alone just watching so I decided to stumble out to sit and keep him company. After all its the least I could do. I sat with my eyes glued on the wonderful young man and he had to be uncomfortable because I am sure my hubby had been perched there like a caged rabbit waiting for the exact moment this castle/shed was done so he could admire it for hours. Well the benadryl wasn't quite out of my system and I began to doze a little and I awoke wondering how long I had been out, Had I drooled? or passed gas? Well I had to go in and get some caffine in me but shoot, now I have to get up and walk like egor and stagger like I am drunk. I waited till his back was to me and I hobbled my gimp ass in the house not to go out again but I did gaze once in a while from the window. (Herceptin seems to give me gas for a few days.) Well while I was watching the "view" hubby was was eye balling the power nailer. Hubby has an air compressor and now we need tools for it. Girls, Do you know how much damage he could do with a power nailer????My pictures would be hung permently to the walls. I wouldn't have to waste money on curtain rods...we could just"nail"them up.....Guess I could nail the grandkids to the yard....If my pants wont stay up, hey I can nail them up. I guess it could help the herceptin diarrhea...yep! nail er shut girls.... Those things are powerfuf and He could hurt himself or worse yet me!!!!!We have nothing we need to nail that often but we will have one and we will use it....Guess my dog won't go outta yard. I always wanted to hang my clothes out to dry and get that good fresh smell, we have privacy fence to nail them on, who needs a clothes line? Later, guess we will be going to Sears soon. Mary

Janie, Ya know I really don't know if it was all real or a little delusion of benadryl. In my mind it was one of those moments where its like a car wreck, ya just can't turn away and ya wont get a second chance if ya miss it. I asked my hubby why we need a power nailer, he said for when we hang the crown molding???? I had no idea we were going to hang crown molding. Where will we hang it??? and most of all why???? I don't think he knows what the hell crown molding is!!!! We don't have wood trim around our doorways, its sorta spanish style curved. I bet when we ask for it at Lowes they will give us some and we will bring it home and hang it.I have a good dark place to "hang" it!!!!!And I will use the "power Nailer" to do it. Hugs, Mary

I am going to have "crown molding" on my teeth Tuesday. Actually, an extraction and a bridge. $1600 AFTER dental insurance! I have a crown missing on the other side. I'm not even going to pursue that yet. Too many appointments. I am falling apart at the seams. Where's the power nailer?!?!

Janie, I have a partial and a denture(top) that I got made a year in a half ago and I can't wear them cause the wt. I gained caused them not to fit right. I have to wear my old denture that is 22 years old. I need to just get what few bottom teeth pulled and be done with it but I keep hanging on to them. It is so nice to have the top denture and not have to get any work done on the top. I have never missed those teeth. I don't know what a bottom denture would be like. I hear its kinda hard to get use to. Gotta go get a new swim suit, we are going to Scottsdale the 30th, the day after my hubby's birthday and my old one of 13 years ripped cause of my extra wt. My daughter is sending us out for my hubby's birthday. (I hope she hides the tools) We are going on a helicopte ride. I don't know if it will be in the Phoenix area or up around Sedona. I have never been on a helicopter. She wants us to see her new place. She lives close to fasion square so we can shop. I can't spend much though with this cobra stuff. Well I am taking my grandaughter shopping to get a few school things. She is in 2nd. grade. She loves to shop. I have a Gap card and I take her like twice a year and let her knock herself out shopping at Gap and Old Navy. I don't shop at Gap so she can shop till she drops. She always says "grandma, this is the best day of my life" so its worth it. I find making memories is the most important part of my life now. The grandsons don't like to shop. I have tried but their male, I drag them through the store and they say grandma just buy whatever you want. I don't bother anymore, I just buy for them. Well better go. Hugs, Mary

Hi girls,

PJ, My dentist is a female who could easily pass for 20 years of age. She is as cute as a button, but I don't lean that way.

Hot Chocolate in December in Wisconsin, how inviting!

Mary, the tooth that bothered me last week is almost gone. Like some of yours, it crumbled under Taxol. She said she could actully save it, but thought it would continue to give me problems. The two beside it are in bad shape too. They are on the bottom right. She is going to extract the one and build a bridge across the 3. I will wear a temporary for about six weeks.

I went up in a helicopter once. It was some kind of promotion at a car dealership. I must have bought a car or something. It's been a while back. Anyway, the aerial view is interesting from that height.

Have bunches to do that I have put off doing this weekend. Later.

Janie

OK Mary,,, that did it for me! I have tears from laughing so much at your dog story. I think it's 'out patient'
Still laughing in WI.. Renee

Janie, Don't the guys in white coats sell Good Humor ice cream? Could it be Emeril???? Mary

Yes, Mary, you just keep telling yourself that. They are there to sell ice cream. Go with them quietly and you may get chocolate.

PJ, I had a PET SCAN, but I had so many procedures at that time, it is hard to remember which was what. I do remember lying in the dark room prior to one of them, and I do not think it was all that bad, nothing traumatic happened anyway, or I would have remembered that.

Adios,

Janie

Yes, Mary, I'm sure she is glad she lives in a home that relishes diversity. You'll have to go out and buy her some little dog clothes and a little dog purse to carry her in, just like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton!