2005 ROCK-TOBER CHEMO GIRLS

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  • TracySeattle
    TracySeattle Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2005

    No one leaves this group! We won't let you! My 1st chemo is on Friday and I am finding that I am getting apprehensive about it. I will be glad when it is over and I know what to expect. Good Job to all of you who had treatments this week. WE ARE DOING THIS and it is so cool that we are doing it together. GO OCPs!

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  • debbie444
    debbie444 Member Posts: 847
    edited October 2005
    Paula - sorry to hear about the delay - as they say "if its worth doing - its worth doing well" - at leadt they are taking good care of you.
    My second session is on Nov 3rd - quite close to your treatment - you are still an Octoberite!
    I am on day 15 now - hair coming out (especially if i pull - must stop doing that!)
    Take Care
    Debbie
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  • debbie444
    debbie444 Member Posts: 847
    edited October 2005
    Have you October ladies looked at the fantastic pics posted on the Bald Pics forum? Made me a bit more confident about losing the hair - only i really dont think i am going to look as good as that!
    Debbie
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  • Paula15089
    Paula15089 Member Posts: 373
    edited October 2005

    thank you ladies, i am staying with you! Another week of waiting and worrying, but i will get there.. with your help.

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  • Nancy-SanDiego
    Nancy-SanDiego Member Posts: 127
    edited October 2005
    Hello OCP's

    I really want to be a part of this dynamic, creative, and supportive group. I have been lurking for several weeks and watched several of you start chemo. What a godsend to know what to expect (anything) and what you can do to prevent or mitgate (didn't think there was that much water left on the planet.) Can I please, please join you. My first treatment is 11/3 (4 A/C, 4T w/Herceptin, then 7 weeks radiation, 40 more weeks of Herceptin and 5 years of Arimitex.)

    Went bald yesterday. It feels so neat--like a velveteen rabbit. Have a great wig, but went to lunch "au natural" and it was just fine. Thankfully, no unexpected bumps or lumps or childhood scars I had forgotten. So far, its been the most positive aspect. I tried on a lot of the caps but they made me feel like an old lady with cancer, so settled for a sleeping cap and will keep looking for outside wear--maybe something like a pumpkin with a cat on it.

    Port goes in tomorrow. It was supposed to be earlier and I'm a little bummed. My son and granddaughter will be here from NC on Saturday for one day, so I planned "Thanksgiving" dinner for all of us. I so wanted to look good and feel good on our day so that was the memory they had. I hope I don't have the tough time Laura did, but we just soldier on, don't we.

    Like all of you, its the fear of the unknown that has me typing at 3 a.m. it is soooo scarey, but you all make it that much easier. Blessings and hugs for all of you.

    Nancy
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  • sherryhaire
    sherryhaire Member Posts: 192
    edited October 2005
    Nancy, Please stay with us When I started this tread in the beginning and was the first one posted I was so scared and felt all alone now one month later I look back at all the wonderful new friends whom I am sad to say had to join me during this time but have gotten more support than i could ever imagine I am going for treatment of AC #2 today as long as my platelet count has come up. It seems like so much has happened this month but I think it is all the firsts to get past. First surgery, First Chemo, First hair loss, First reactions from people ect.. Know that our FIRST REACTION for you is stay here with us you belong here.
    Sherry
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  • sherryhaire
    sherryhaire Member Posts: 192
    edited October 2005

    My thoughts to all of you taking a treatment today and all this week, please let us know how you are doing good or bad and we will see you through

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  • sherryhaire
    sherryhaire Member Posts: 192
    edited October 2005

    Paula-- The same goes for you as well please stay with us October girls, you are a part of us now--My prayers will go to the new November thread when it gets going and I'm sure it will be soon but I cannot imagine a greater group of women as you will find here

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  • RoseMarie
    RoseMarie Member Posts: 502
    edited October 2005
    Drinking my jug of water and waiting...I'm a little sore this morning at the port site but it's not that bad. 3 hours till first chemo. I'm glad I decided to have my kids spend the night with my parents. It's nice to not have to worry about getting everyone off this morning. I usually feel the opposite - usually the normal routine keeps my mind off of me and I like it that way.

    Thanks for joining us NancyK! It has been comforting being a part of this group.

    Paula - My prayers go out to you too!
    Thanks to all you OCP's! You have been a great help...

    God bless you guys today.
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  • TracySeattle
    TracySeattle Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2005
    Rosemarie - I will be thinking of you today! My first time is tomorrow. It is kind of scary, isn't it?

    Sherryhaire, how are you feeling?

    Nancy, we are glad you are here and staying with us!

    Debbie, I am sorry about your hair, but that is just about the last "unknown" for us, so once you are over that hump you will be able to just do it!

    (((Hugs))) to everyone, especially those starting treatment today and tomorrow. You will all be with me tomorrow!
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  • Graycie
    Graycie Member Posts: 839
    edited October 2005

    Good luck to all you ladies starting chemo today.......Don't be scared there is nothing to it..It is just scary not knowing what to expect...During and after my treatment I felt great.....Not that you won't have side effects but they didn't hit me until a couple days later....Let us know how it went...HUGS TO EVERYONE, Graycie

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  • daydream
    daydream Member Posts: 69
    edited October 2005
    Hello, everyone! Day 3 after chemo and I feel almost human!

    Here is my first attempt at an October logo. It's too small to see, because I haven't yet figured out how to post a picture in the text box. I'll figure it out, though. It says, "October Chemo Girls...Have an inner glow."

    So, suggestions, opinions? It's O.K., I'm not overly sensitive! I am, however, an amateur Photoshop addict.

    Susan--back later
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  • daydream
    daydream Member Posts: 69
    edited October 2005

    Major bummer, but you can still be an October "girl" and November, too!

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  • kapensy
    kapensy Member Posts: 21
    edited October 2005
    My second dose was last Friday, and I was okay - just very tired, but yesterday I couldn't even get out of bed - so tired and all I wanted to do was sleep. Getting up to eat was hard and I know I didn't get enough water in me yesterday - trying to make up for it today and am feeling a little more myself, but am going to take it easy and not push too hard. Thank goodness I'm not working - I think I'm going to have to add some red meat back in my diet - going vegetarian at this time might not be the best idea, I guess. Even my brother, who I am living with during this ordeal (he has been a vegetarian for twenty years) thinks I need to eat meat...what do you ladies think? I gave up meat mainly so I didn't bring it into a vegetarian home with small children that always want to try what their "Aunty Lynn" is eating, but felt much better until I started chemo.


    Logo - love the idea!! And anyone that starts with this group, stays with this group!!! Right?

    Lynn
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  • AnnaM
    AnnaM Member Posts: 1,387
    edited October 2005
    My first session is this coming Monday (Halloween). I keep reading your posts about water. My oncologist didn't tell me to do anything besides taking the one EMEND pill the morning of that first chemo. Isn't there anything else I should do? Drink water? How much? Please help.

    Anna
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  • AnnaM
    AnnaM Member Posts: 1,387
    edited October 2005
    Oh, and put some cream on my port, too.

    Anna
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2005
    Susan,
    Wow! You really put that logo together in record time! I think it looks great! The words - inner glow - are great too! Good job!

    I'm day one after first chemo - a little achy and tired.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2005
    Paula74,
    Exact same time as I was composing a post to you about both of us starting chemo on the same day, you were posting one telling of your delay. Hang in there! It was not as bad as I thought. Scary, yes, but didn't feel anything! Today I am achy and have a headache - both are doing better due to meds. Best wishes to you with the sur. and the 1st. chemo!
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  • mjsherrill
    mjsherrill Member Posts: 21
    edited October 2005
    Susan,



    I love it - an inner glow! Great job! Hurry and figure out how to plop it into the text box!



    Tracey - and all the others starting tomorrow - here's a hug and prayer. It will be OK and you will get through it and write to all of us and tell us you are OK! Drink water - lots of it - and keep your inner glow through it all.
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  • mjsherrill
    mjsherrill Member Posts: 21
    edited October 2005
    Anna,

    I try to drink at least 10 bottles of water a day. Of course, that makes it totally impossible to sleep through the night without getting up at least 2 or 3 times to go to the bathroom! We need a pipeline installed from the bed to the bathroom.

    Seriously, the more water I drink, the better I feel. And water, unlike a lot of fruit juices, even the "lites", has no calories. So two things - you keep yourself hydrated and you get lots of exercise running to the bathroom all day!
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  • ake
    ake Member Posts: 684
    edited October 2005
    i love the logo...really love it next step...tshirts?

    had my second chemo today and it was a piece of cake. i'm so excited. granted, my entire system may go bananas when i go off the decadron like last time, but my onc. is weaning me off gradually and i'm crossing my fingers that helps. chemo wise though...it was just like the first one.

    not to be too intimate or gross...is anyone's pubic hair starting to fall out? just like the hair on my head...it itches to no end and is just coming out. is there anything to do to make that whole process easier. it's weird!!!

    good luck to everyone starting chemo today or tomorrow...we're all such rock stars!!!!

    love,
    amy
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  • Nancy-SanDiego
    Nancy-SanDiego Member Posts: 127
    edited October 2005
    I love the logo and especially the words. I'm going to think of all of you getting or getting through new chemo treatments tomorrow with an inner glow and will carry the glow with me to get my port.

    Amy, I love your picture, its very tender.

    Nancy
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  • mjsherrill
    mjsherrill Member Posts: 21
    edited October 2005
    I think Amy has a great idea - t-shirts! Glad to hear treatment 2 went as well as the first. Kinda thinking about number 2 next week and wondering if I can be so lucky to have it go as easily as the first.

    Hair is still attached - but like a lot of the other OCP's I keep pulling it. I will have all of it out long before it ever starts falling out on its own!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2005
    I just LOVE the logo. Good job, daydream!

    My wbc is 1.5, pretty low but doctor is hoping it will go up by the weekend. I was told that I would get the neupagen shot if it did not go up by next Thursday, which is my 2nd chemo date. Does this sound right to all those who have experienced low blood counts? And oh, I'm also anemic.

    Thanks.
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  • sherryhaire
    sherryhaire Member Posts: 192
    edited October 2005

    The LOGO is great 2nd Chemo today a couple snags--couldn't get blood from port for awhile had to flush a dozen times before it finally decided to work no pain as I used cream before hand but was nervous for awhile. Had to have ultrasound on a new lump,mass something under right arm which is supposed to be unaffected arm but had mastectomy in that one as well, hopefully nothing maybe scaring from surgery but will have to WAIT again a few days for report to come in. The actual chemo went well ran it ove longer time 3 and 1/2 hours as to try to prevent headache I got first chemo. Hope everyone else went well and are doing well

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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Member Posts: 109
    edited October 2005
    Okay--how did there get to be two "Starting Chemo in October" threads. I already seem to have Chemo Brain (wore my sweater inside-out to the store today), and posted on the other thread--then looked for my post on this thread--WTF?? I thought I'd really lost it, until I realized there were two threads with the same title--geez. . .
    Jane
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Member Posts: 109
    edited October 2005
    Sherry,
    You are in my thoughts are prayers--hang in there.
    Jane
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  • debbie444
    debbie444 Member Posts: 847
    edited October 2005
    Love the pic - aren't I among talented people here!
    Amy - that hair started coming out before my head hair.
    My hubby shaved my head for me yesterday evening as it had started coming out fast and all of my clothes looked like mohair. yes i cried when he started doing it but i feel ok now - one more hurdle over and done with. When i feel brave enough i will post it on the bald pics forum - i look a little less like the imp from Harry Potter than i expected so thats a good thing!
    Anna - i took lots of water to my chemo - it gave me something else to think about too. Afterwars i tried to drink whatever felt comfortable. It must have worked because apart from a light headache for the first two days and needing an afternoon nap for days 2-5 i have felt fine!
    Thinking of all of you - going to see if my inner glow shines through the top of my head now i have no hair!
    Love Debbie
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  • sherryhaire
    sherryhaire Member Posts: 192
    edited October 2005

    Jane how are you doing when or have you have 2nd treatment?

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  • mjsherrill
    mjsherrill Member Posts: 21
    edited October 2005
    Laura,

    You are two days out - how are you doing?
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