November 2009-Starting Chemo

SLV,

Ouchey wee wee Sheri

I know you are anxious for the weekend to be over as to get your results. Bless your heart. Hugging and Hoping all to be OK for you~~~~Let's hear some good news :-)

Alicia,

I love the flops, I want some too~~~~~Adorable~~~Oh, I was only 4 days post chemo on Saturday. It was very chilly here in N. Florida and I was loving it. I even wore my HAIR!!! My DH was loving it on me~~ !! I am so excited the end is near. Normal does feel so dang good for a bit  ~~~    Now, Just a little bit of RADS, no biggie, I HOPE and PRAY!!!

Melinda,

Talking about food, oh my Saturday I was feeling so good, I went to lunch with hubby and i was SO hungry (day 4 post chemo) I ordered and ATE #pieces of fried chicken mmm'mmm good and it came with Spaghetti and garlic bread on the side. YUM. I ate all of it except 1 piece of chicken. Then I even had a slice of hubby's pizza. On the way home I had to stop and get dessert. 2 cupcakes, 1 apple pie, 1 piece of hard Candy, he just laughed at me and said babe so good to see you feel so good!!!!

Joanne,

Now I need your work schedule!!! I 'm trying to figure out how to work 5 days a week and do my rads 5 days a week  ~~~ Chemo was at least only once every 3 so I didn't miss much work - just that one day every 3 weeks was all I missed. My boss will be OK with it, he will have to ~~ I need your magic wand please :-)\

CafeLovr,

My dear sweet Cafe, Ouchy  you too!!! How did you get so dang dehydrated????? Did you drink too much coffee and not enough water? The shots in the tum-tum OMG. How did you handle that???  (((((((((((((((((((Healing Hugs)))))))))))))))))))  to you!!!!

Psalms 121,

I craved Mickey D's the entire chemo time. I don't even like cheeseburgers nor McDonalds, except for the fish on a normal basis, but during this I had cheeseburgers any time I traveled anywhere. Hubby would ask what I wanted, I'd say cheeseburger please. He loved it, because usualy I didn't want those and he LOVES burgers. So it worked or him~~ Alos any power of suggestion would make me eat too, look at a picture, had to have it, one of the girls talking about what they ate, I had to have it. This was by far worse than ANY PREGO CRAVINGS I ever had~~~~Oh yeah, and even if Chemo isn't done with me, my SPIRITS are so good nothing could get me down right now. I feel more inspired than i have for some time now, bout 9 months I'd say. Thanks for your kind words!!!

To all Warrriors, peace and joy to each of you!

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Hi All,

Sue,

If only it where that simple. I live an hour and a half from where I get radiation treatment.  My oncologist is wonderful however. I really, really like her. I will have to work from 7:00am till 2:30pm, then drive 1.5 hours to TMRMC, to make their latest schedule allowed which is at 3:45pm. They said I would be totally done by 4:30pm at the latest, then I'll drive back home. Should be home by 6:00pm - 8:00pm, just depends, because I will probably be too tired to cook, so we will probably stop in the City of Tallahassee to eat before coming home to C-Belle on the coast. Then I'm sure I'll just hit the hay~~~ready for another day~~~ 

It's OK though I am so happy today again,  It's as if I'm having an out-of-body experience with all my good news, even though I feel a little puckish today I don't even care. My journey is almost over. (At least I feel like it is)

SueInFlu,

Congrats on your last Chemo yesterday, hope you are having little to no side effects, get some rest and be sure to drink those fluids. ((((HEALING HUGS)))))

Doronet,

Congrats on being totally done with chemo and Taxol  !!!!!!!  I think we will be doing Rads together soon  I feel the heat already~~~~~ See you round the corner

Cat60,

Thanks for the kind words, I am so excited, I too have to do meds for 5 years I'm not too worried with that, as long as I hear -0- % recurrence it is well worth any med they give me! I will have had it all, "The Surgery's (3) of them" "The Red Devil" "Toxic Cytoxan" Rads coming up, and then the meds, BUT I love my results so far, it has me completely inspired to continue as Doc. says!!

CafeLovr,

How are you doing now? I hope you are feeling much better. I'm so sorry you got dehydrated. I was scared that was happening to me about two weeks ago, so every time I pooped (SORRY)I immediately drank a bottle of water, which was about every hour on the hour. In went the water out came the P-- - - -P, from 7:00am till 7:00pm I had drank a twelve pack of water and my you know what was sore as hades!!! BUT, I finally quit by 8:00, what a relief, the next day I was pretty good. I drank water about 1 bottle every 3 hours and stayed normal. (so to speak)

SLV,

Your in our thoughts and prayers. have you received your test results? I hope your doing OK!!! Good vibes being sent your way, (((((GENTLE HUGS))))) Get you some much needed rest ~~

To everyone I may have missed (((((WARRIOR HUGS)))))

So many Wazrriors having Tx today, to each I send warm positive vibes. So many are nearing the end of this journey and are almost ready for the next step. Some are going thru rads and others meds for years and others still have surgery to deal with or those her2 girls on the Herceptin for quite sometime,

YET we have made it together, together we shared so many experiences, we cried sometime, freaked out sometimes but we even had some good laughs(Thanks SharaD)

None of us thought we could deal with it at the beginning, but look at us now!!! Each of us to be proud of our hard work. Having each other made it possible for me~~~~

                   NETTE,            jkwick74,              LiveLife/natalie 

To each of you congrats for making it over the wall to the next step of your journey,

                                             "The Healing Process"   

                 ((((((((((((((((((WARM GENTLE HEALING HUGS))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

NETTE,

I'm soo soo soo HAPPY for you  DONE CONGRATS

I am not sure exactly what med I'm on. I believe he mentioned it would be the aromabase inhibitor because I too am post meno and the Er+ Pr+, but he did not say for positive. My follow up with him isn't until April 16th. BUT, Rads today I consul, next Wed. I get mapped and then I'm suppose to start like the first week of March! March is a five week month so I hope for it to all be over with by EARLY April 1st or 2nd!

Too too sweet the necklace! What a DH you have indeed. So very special. I love your idea with the stretchy bracelets for the Rads. My Rads Onc I met with her before chemo (None of us new I was getting chemo then) and at that time she said either 5 or 6 weeks. If it's 5 weeks it will be April 2nd I'm done (if I don't miss) 6 weeks will be April 9th.

Alicia,

Hope your vacation is wonderful, You deserve every minute of joy you can get. Oh you mention VERMONT, I thought about syrup from Vermont and wanted Pancakes,  now I'm hungry again.  When all this is over I need to seriously diet and exercise!!!~~~~~not a minute sooner~~

SuePen

You go Girlfriend you are almost there too. I too have to take a sleeping pill the day before TX, as well 2 days after or else the Decadron has me wide slap  awake!!! Thank goodness for a good nurse, I loved all mine for sure they where all fantastic.

Melinda,

The Herceptin sure seems like a lot of meds. 40 doses.?????? 

 Do you know if there is much side effects to this. Do you get a shot?  So not fair. Too cotton picking long!!! ~~~ Do I need to give you a smiley for each?? I will ya know,

CafeLovr,

Just checking on you to see if that Calgon took you too far away!!    If so just enjoy the ride. And hope the RBC went down some!!!

Cat60,

How are you doing? I hope your chills and night sweats end soon~ I had those from my chemo TX's usually the first week to week and a half.

mommy2two,

And how are you? How is the Rads going?  Me and Doronette are on our way soon for the Rads. You are our leader!!!!!!! so good to hear from you!!!!

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