April 2011 chemo

Yippy! Ladies, everyone is getting along the path. Soon this will be a distant memory.

So nice to hear happy news! 

Kg--yes, probably..my pointer and second fingers are the worst. 

My baby bear is home sick with a fever.  Man, I hate when he's sick, but it's pretty awesome that this week I don't have any Boston appts, so I can be with him.  I'd hate to leave him all day with my mom when he's sick.  He's 5, but boy does he seem like such a little one when he's sick. 

I have some good news too--I'm going to be a matron of honor at my dear friend MArk's wedding!  Now, I just have to make sure I can make it to NYC for Dec 10th.  I may be in the middle of AC treatments, and I'm sure I'll still be bald...yikes.  But it's a good excuse for a new LBD!  (Little Black Dress)

Just stopping in to see how everyone is...tell you all I love you and everyone...please keep your spirits up. Had an MRI done yesterday to see how much the chemo did its job before the surgery! Praying for really good news. I'll keep you all posted. So glad to see some of you feeling well enough to get to some things you enjoy doing. I hope to be there soon.  Mine is getting back to dancing, I used to do everything from Argentine Tango to the Jitterbug and all in between. LOVE to dance. Brings me such joy. But....once my surgery is done it might be a while before I feel I can let some dude lift my right arm up to twirl me! Good incentive though to do my exercises so I can get back to it though.

Hi Ladies.  Just popping in for a quick hello.

I've been at Look Good Feel Better this morning so am feeling like I should be doing some work, not playing online!

I had Taxol #3 yesterday.  So far so good. No side effects to speak of, which I'm really grateful for.

I hope everyone is having a great week.

I would be willing to pull the list together, though I admit that it might be a not fast turn around time).

Windlass, you say non-gmail address, I'm guessing because you have privacy issues with gmail.  Are you okay with yahoo?   Those are my only two options since I do not want this info going to my work email.

Let me know.

hi everyone! i got to attend my meeting last night after my chemo treatment! i learned alot and looking forward to doing all this work to raise money for the cure!i didn't realize just how much they really wanted you to do!

i am already on facebook with geo and annie. i like the idea of getting back on here in 2016 is it! thanks carla for doing it and thank for the laugh merilee about getting fired lol!!

off to get my last neulasta  shotgotmy last chemo yesterday took my last steroid this morning!!! i don't want to feel like i am rubbing it in so please don't take it that way... i know alot still have a long way to go. i will be here to listen for as long as yall need me!

hang in there ladies!!!

Hi Ladies,

Just throught I'd drop in and say that I have now finished my last chemo round 6 of taxotere/herceptin combo, now got herceptin every 3 weeks and will be starting on tomoxifen in a months time, so hopefully everything will be good with that lot, good luck to all of you still going through chemo your nearly there.

love and light to all

Sarah Sweetyxxxx  

Hi Windlass,

Not that fast, yes finished chemo for now I am at stage IV so will probably have to have more chemo again sometime in the future maybe!!! Anyway having surgery around the middle of Sept mx with lymph node clearance, not sure if I am going to have rads as my cancer has already spread to my lungs (but that is looking real good after the CT Scan results everything has vasty reduced and the 6cm lump in my breast they cannot find YAY) was scheduled to have 3 FEC and 3 Taxotere but due to finding secondaries 2 weeks after primary had to change that regime and made all the rest of my chemos taxotere. Things are looking good and I am so looking forward to having my hair back, for me it was all about my hair, never really had boobs puberty forgot about my boobs, so dont think I will miss them now.

I am going to be on Herceptin indefinately but dont seem to have any SE on that, and 5 years on Tamoxifen not sure about that been reading it makes you put weight on something I am not used to so not looking forward to that one. 

 I am english and live in england so maybe they do things differently in america or canada I have noticed that you ladies in the states seem to have more chemo's initially than we do over here.

Thanks for getting back to me Windlass sending you lots of love and light and healing vibes.

Sarah Sweety xx 

hi everyone. congrats paw and arti! that made me smile. sept will be my time to celebrate final chemo:) congrats again!

Paw print and artifact! Gogogo! My last dexa set starts , last TC is Friday! So looking forward to having it behind me, and yet more freaked than the previous, because each has progressively been rougher. So good to read you're done, so I'm primed for it, too. Then hair! So I can stop looking like an owlet...then deep breath, and rads, and etc., but this part will be done, thank goodness.

Hey Ladies! Kudos to those who have kicked chemo to the curb. Nicely done to have that behind you.  Way to show us how it's done.

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So I volunteered to pull together an contact info list for our Lounge.

Here is what I'll need to get started. Please email to the following address (spelled out to avoid phishing):

To: carlaarmorganATyahooDOTcom

Subject: BCO contact info (always include BCO somewhere in your subject line for my filter)

Body of email:

Once I get everything together, I'll let you all know and tell you when to expect my email.  I'll mess with formats a bit to find something that works well.

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Typical pre-chemo sleeplessness here. 4/12 Taxol at 9am.  Low WBC again, so they upped me to 2 Neupogen shots this week (Tue and Wed to prep for Thu chemo). Just kind of down yesterday and today.  I'm trying to shake it, but this week seems harder than usual.  I did get to hold a brand new baby today.  She was so little, born at 4lbs 8 oz on Saturday.  She managed to melt my heart and break my heart in one fell swoop.  Her big sister (4yrs old) asked me if I wished I had a new baby like her baby sister and man, out of the mouth of babes.  When I left, I just sat in my car and cried and cried.  Because yes, I wish I had a little baby like her sister, and my little baby will be 5 on Sunday, and I was just all woe is me.  This was the year I was supposed to get pregnant, not get cancer.

Oh Carla.  I was pregnant last summer and miscarried.  My gyno suggested that if I had that baby, I may not have felt my lump since I would have been DUE when I found my lump.  That miscarriage may have saved my life.  We hadn't planned that pregnancy, but it was still hard to realize that I'm done, that Jack's an only child, that this part of my life is over.  I feel your pain.  While we're doing what we need to do to be here for the kid we already have, I know it hurts.  

Carla and Profbee - Girls I feel so for you both, when I was dx earlier this year I had initially gone to the doctors to talk about me getting pregnant at age 43 also had an itch on my right breast then after examination referred me onto the breast care clinic and found grade 3 IDC in my right breast and lymph nodes also spread onto my lungs (although the chemo is working and everything is shrinking yay).

Profbee so sorry to hear about your miscarriage but in hindsight it does seem to appear that the miscarriage did save your life and you do have a little boy that needs and loves his mummy, god bless you.

So babies are not an option for me anymore and part of me is very very sad about that, I must admit that I did leave it longer than most mainly cause I was working on my career and being an artist is about the most creative thing to be apart from the most creative job on the planet that is being a mother and having children. Both of my grandmothers had children late in life one at age 42 and the other at 38 so I did'nt think anything of having children later in life. Until this happened to me and now I am left feeling kinda lost, I suppose I always figured a child into my life and now just cant seem to shake that lost feeling. Sorry about that sat here crying my eyes out did'nt realise how important it was or how strongly I felt obviously need to address this issue further. 

Thanks for reading this post

Sending love and light to all in need.

Sarah Sweety

xxxxxx 

Thanks Merilee sending one right back at ya!!!

also, those who wear wigs.......any suggestions to prevent the head sweating?