Emotions regarding last chemo

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JoleneBee
JoleneBee Member Posts: 2
edited June 2014 in Stage II Breast Cancer

Jan 30 is my (hopefully) last chemo session.  I am really emotional about it.  I was so looking forward to this, but I am in tears just thinking about it.  Anyone else experience this?  Is it because I know that no more chemicals are entering by body to fight the cancer?   

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  • warrior70
    warrior70 Member Posts: 144
    edited January 2014

    Jolene Bee, we BOTH have our last chemo that day!  What regimen are you?

    I know how you feel.  I am so excited about "graduation" that I haven't given much thought to the "well,this is it, isn't it?" side of being done with chemo, but I am sure that it is coming.

    Are you doing hormonals or rads?  Remember that those two things can drastically cut down recurrence.

    In the meantime, come here...there are a lot of really good people here who can help you answer your questions.  And welcome to the boards!

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  • JoleneBee
    JoleneBee Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2014

    I am finishing my taxol.  I will start rads in a couple of weeks.  On the one hand, I am anxious for the chemo to be done, so I can eat food and enjoy it.  Horrible bad taste in my mouth.  Grow out my hair.  Lots of good things to come!   But I know chemo is working to kill any cancer cells.  So I am just a little apprehensive 

    I will be doing hormone therapy and radiation.  I am stage 2a, 1.1 cm, grade 2, 2/7 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-.  

    I will be thinking of you, Warrior70, as I get my last chemo.  Today at chemo, the nurses (they are fabulous!), all came round and commented on how I have just one and how glad they are for me.  

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  • warrior70
    warrior70 Member Posts: 144
    edited January 2014

    Hey, we're almost cancer twins, too!  What regimen are you on?

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  • DizzyBird
    DizzyBird Member Posts: 9
    edited February 2014


    Hi ladies, seems we are in a similar boat!  I have two rounds of taxol left and my six months of chemo will be finished.  I will still be carrying on with the herceptin for most of this year, but at least I don't need to go to the hospital for that.  I also have hormone therapy starting soon and radiation treatment starting at the end of March, so more treatment to look forward (??!) to.  I don't know how I feel  yet about the chemo ending, but I am looking forward to moving on and hoping my hair starts to grow back!  As to being in tears Jolene Bee, nothing beats a good cry, but move on with a bright future ahead and embrace life - we are all surviving here!

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  • ROAREUS
    ROAREUS Member Posts: 51
    edited February 2014

    Hello,

    I too finished chemo on 1/30 and have mixed feelings about it.  I am petrified.  Petrified that the cancer will come back and my 3 year old twins will grow up without their mom.  I don't care about anything else, I just want to watch my kids grow up and I am so scared that I won't be able to.  I feel like I am going to die I am so scared.

    Any words of wisdom out there for me?  PLEASE...

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