Has anyone started a Dec 2011 group?

Lori and Rachel - - soft virtual hugs to you.  As miserable as you feel, this is the last treatment.  I know it doesn't help the immediate feelings, but let it help you look into the future.  Thinking about both of you as you curl up this weekend.

Thank you all for all of your kind words....I am still very fuzzy and will respond later.



My RBC's have dropped to a 24 so they are prepping me for a transfusion this afternoon. Just have to hope it gets here so that I don't have to drive another 45 minutes tomorrow and be in misery another day.



Hope everyone is bouncing back much quicker than I am!!!!

Lori, I have my fingers crossed for you. I am sad for you that the last one was so hard, however it is the LAST. In a couple of days you should be feeling better. Did you do the neulasta/ neuprogen shots?



Like I said fingers crossed.

Lori - Sorry to hear about the rbc's. I hope they recover without a transfusion. Feel better!

Yesterday was rough, but I stayed in bed late today and am actually feeling a little better, I think, than I did this time last treatment. But my fingers are tingly and my heels a bit numb. Downing the oatmeal okay at least. 

Oh gosh, Lori.  So sorry you're going through such a rough time with this treatment.  The last one really wanted to kick you. . .but you fought back!  I hope the next few days bring you a bit more strength each day. 

Kelly - how have you been?  I don't remember seeing many posts from you recently.  Are the kids behaving? 

I am feeling SOOOOOO much better!!!!!  Oh my word...I feel like I didn't even have treatment just on Thursday!!!!  

WE DID IT!!!!!  And now I'm ready for a vacation!!!!!  Not sure it will be in the budget, but I am going to try!!!  We are about 4 hours from the ocean and I just want to go to the ocean...I want to feel the breeze in my hair (however much I will have by then), feel the warm ocean air, hear the waves crashing, watch my little guy play....I don't know, maybe I am being a little dramatic, but I do...I really, really do just want to go to the ocean.  

AND....on the hair note...I'm feelin a little fuzzy ya'all!!!!!  I never did go completely bald, I had a lot of stubble, but I have about 5 hairs that cover my ear!!!!  And my one bald spot is very prickly!!!!

I honestly can not wrap my head around the fact that I am finished with chemo...what about you guys????  

OH...and on a completely different note, sort of...Have any of you seen the news report (I just saw it today) that breast cancer is over diagnosed??  The article suggests that many breast cancers "won't really cause harm".....WTH?????  Had I waited even ONE more month, I would have a completely different outcome!!!!!  REALLY???  They said, once you choose to find out with a mammogram, you have no choice but to treat it.  CANCER is CANCER....you can't just say, oh, well, I'll wait till it causes a real problem!!!  Oh how I hope this is not the future of BC in America.  

So happy for you Lori!  I feel the same way about the vacation.....I want my ass in a chair with my toes in the sand, bring on the ocean!  I'm gonna try for that also, even if it's not in the budget...and I live quite a bit farther from the ocean.  I say treat yourself, you deserve it!

mardibra - Thanks!

Lori - Glad to hear you're on the rebound. I actually woke up this morning feeling much better than I had expected and for the first time thought, could I really be 'done'? Sorry you needed the transfusion, but it's good you got the treatment you needed.

BC 'overdiagnosed'??? Unless they're talking about DCIS as being 'precancer.' And I've seen way too many women here who start with a dx of DCIS and wind up finding out it's more to say we can take it easy. But that's what happens when people who aren't the actual doctors treating their patients get to make the rules the rest of us have to live (and die) by.

FLIslander, My thoughts and prayers are with you tomorrow as you go for your surgery. 

Laura

Lori!! I am so glad for you. You sound like a different person from a couple of days ago. Congrats !!!! I am going to the ocean too, leaving May the 28th, got to get on a plane and fly to fort Meyers Florida to do that but definitely well worth it.



I start rad on the 10th, 20 shots, got my marking yesterday. Td them I did not want permanent tattoo.



So we have what? Two others to go? We are waiting on you both.

Today I had 6th/12 Taxol, half way done yay! Surgery date set for 5/25th for partial mx. Then on to rads, seems endless.



Welcome back Laura, missed u!



Deb, what an awesome offer, it would be great if we can all meet up a yr from now when all of us will have come back to somewhat normal and see how everyone is doing, kind of a reunion of sorts.

Lori so glad you are feeling better!



Seacret so glad you checked in. Hope you can finish with little SE's.



Naan yay for half way done!



Rachel how soon after your BMX could you do normal things...cook, clean, or feel normal?

Hi -- I have 3 more taxol fridays ahead of me.  You know, I can I can do this, but we celebrate both Passover and Easter, and I hate losing yet another set of holidays to post-chemo lethargy (and worse).  Anyway, I can see three weeks ahead...not bad!  (Then time off for good behavior before rads -- and I'm going to Puerto Rico to stare at the sun!!)

 Yes, I shampoo my "hair,"  which is tiny wisps. But it's part of my ritual that I have reclaimed. And, you know, sort of "build it and they will come."  No, seriously, I like the smell, I think massaging the head can't hurt, and it's oddly relaxing.

I agree Peacock, I still shampoo also for the same reasons.  My DH shaved me again this past Sunday.  I am done with chemo now and I had some peach fuzz with strange long wispies, looked pretty bad.  The nurses at my cancer center suggested it, said it may help it grow in thicker.  At least it should grow in more evenly.  I am going to try some Nioxin as I've heard it helps.  If it's too expensive, I have considered Miracle Grow...jk

LOL Mardibra....thanks for the laugh!