2012 sisters

Sending Love and Good Wishes to you all that will be getting your treatments today...will be thinking of you as I start off on this journey, first treatment for me and am really not feeling to good about it....my need something to calm me down.  Have to drive an hour to the clinic,hope I don't get car sick, happens sometimes when I am stressed.

Hugs and good wishes to you all. 

Morning Ladies... well the dexamethasone is working - makes me so wired.  Managed about 4 hours on/off sleep last night.  For those of you still only half way through treatment... there is an end - really!  And I dont want to brag that today is my last, but its a great bloody feeling.   Its good to see all the pill bottles disappear from my window sill... its good to see that I only have 3 Neupogen shots left... and only an hour and half left in the BGC.

Juneau.. there is nothing worse than inaction eh?   After today I will have an approx 6 week wait until surgery.. so will just be hanging in there with ya... least we can keep each other company and have a few pity parties if we want... margaritas will be served

Lostinmo and MaddyMac - thinking of you fighting sisters.

Enjoy your days ladies and hope any SE's are very minimal and bearable.   Chat later.

Peace, love and hugs xxxx

Thanks 2Fried and everyone else for the congrats on my last day in the BGC!  Hey once I am up to it I will be celebrating with a very large drink.... and I said to my DH once chemo started, that finally after 20 years he gets a cheap date

And that is a wonderful story of you, your drains and DH... yes bc somehow makes us bond closer eh?  Glad to hear the bitchyness returns eventually I was getting worried I was turning into someone 'nice'... have a reputation to keep up you know

Well I am off to get ready go leave for 8 of 8.  Love ya sisters !

Good luck to all in the chairs today.

ooh moonflwr, yes, anyone under the knife today; best wishes, blessings and a steady hand for the surgeon. 

tazzy, I always suspected you were an evil person...

Super Tazzy Devil - Wow youre done with 8 of 8 and you are going out to do gardening now?!!!! I would have thought the DH would be there hounding for a celebration with his cheap date since chemo is done, and b4 any SE's, but maybe he is just thinking positive and hoping for an entire weekend of fun.  Oh well, I was waiting for you to get back so I could have that toast to you but I guess it's just a wee too early in the day then huh?  So glad that you're done with the BGC! Movin on! 

Had my mediport removed today after 4 months of chemo (4x ac, 4x tax)!!!!! It feels so amazing to not have it in anymore and it was much easier than putting it in. Now onto 33 rounds of rads! Hope everyone has a great weekend and congrats to those who finished up treatments today!!

Tazzy:  yeah!!!!  Congrats!  6 more days and I am DONE too!  JPmom:  You are right ahead of me!  Next week is going to be a good week.

Ellendou:wishing you minimal S/E's this weekend.

Westwoodmom:  Congrats, too!  

Tazzy, congrats on that milestone! Hope your SEs do not linger.

2Friedeggs, too funny about the stripping, and sounds just like my DH. He has been my rock through all this, has even made most of the appointments. Was glad he missed the one last week though, where I waited 2 1/2 hours for a two minute follow up with my surgeon. My Oncotest score had come in, and I was determined to find out what it was. It was 25, right in the middle. So waiting did me no good really.

I am currently looking at a prescription for Femara and reading up on the SEs. Not liking any of it, but I must give it a try. 

Sounds like a normal SE Ellendou that fuzzy weird sort of not sure what's happening feeling.   Take care, listen to your body and drink plenty - water I mean

Here's to a great weekend to us all...minimal SE's for all (PLEASE).

Thanks soyaandpepper - its a good feeling.  Half way through this crappy journey.  Ready for the next steps...bring it on - oh! she says with such cockiness... wont be so brave in about 4 days I bet.. ha ha !

I agree... just say NO !

So I went to the doctor today and my pathology results are back, they confirmed that the cancer on the right side was 15mm just as the MRI showed and found nothing else in that breast. On my left breast where I had a lump for 5 years (went to a ob/gyn at the time I found it and he felt the lump but told me it was nothing and I left it at that), when I did the biopsy, the result came back that it was an non cancerous condition called sclerosing adenosis. Anyways, the doctor told me to remove that non cancerous lump as well. So I did a NSBMX, and the result for the left breast is ADH. This confirms that I made the right choice of BMX instead of just UBX. 

Since I live in a small island in the Caribbean, the test for the hormone receptors are done either through the government lab or send it to the UK (since that's where my oncoplastic surgeon practiced for 15 years before coming back to this island- he studied here and then finished in the UK), I choose to send it tot the UK, so I have to wait on that for about 10 days give or take.

Now comes the hard part, my surgeon is sending me to an MO to discuss my chemo treatment. I have not done an Oncotype test and will ask about that when I see the MO, but my surgeon told me the only reason for me to see the MO at this point is my age (35), from all the results he says my cancer was not very aggressive and it was 15mm with no nodes involved.  I don't know if I should base my decision to do chemo or not on the oncotype test and my hormone receptors. I've started to include raw food in my diet (like juicing left greens twice a day and eating organic all the way). 

What are your experiences with deciding chemo? I'm not sure that the benefits outweight the side effects (long term and short term) for me. 

Finally got back home at 4. I would really love to coment on everyone but just to out of it right now. Please know that I thinking for all of you. Hopefully I will be able to catch up tomorrow.

Ellendou, so glad it went well for you today. Just hang in there. It will get worse before it gets better, but it will pass. The first three weeks after chemo #1 felt neverending to me, but after that the time went quickly. Drink a lot of water/iced tea etc., and sleep whenever you feel like it.

 Tazzy, 

DianaNM My Dh has been doing the Drs visits with me too so far, except for the fills, but now that its just follow up on follow ups  I think I'lll let him off the hook.You had a really long wait for that follow up. We waited a good hour at one of my last visits but I don't mind when I know that I sometimes take up his time with my barrage of questions and some other poor person has to wait.  As far as the prescription goes, i was given arimidex and felt the same way.The list of se's is scary but then my husband reminded me that even aspirin has some really scary ones including death.lol  But I have been taking the Arimidex over a month now and knock on wood, so far, no problems. I don't ofcourse know how much it helped, but my mo told me when I start to take it , take one then wait 3 days to take another for the first 9 days then go to every other day for a week, then start on it every day. He said it kind of introduces it to your body slowly  so that your body accepts it. My d-in-law has her dr in pharmacy and totally agreed with his theory as does my bs. Ofcourse, they could all be bluffing me but  even if the were it gave me more confidence doing it that way, rather than just starting to take it every day right off the bat. Plus I take it at night so that I will hopefully sleep through any headaches etc. it might cause.   If you are apprehensive to get started, you could probably start the Femara off slowly the same way.

Lostinmo Glad youre home. Hope you're feeling better tomorrow. Let us know.

Soyaandpepper  more drs visits and decisions-we know it's hard but as you well know from this whole bc crap, once you have a game plan, it's easier to handle whatever the situation.