Starting Chemo in April 2014

Sharon, thank you for including me in your collage! Everyone looks great - it was nice to see all the smiles

Clrrn - happy you are doing better! 

Cold - is this your last?? Are you celebrating?  Love your ty-dye scarf!  

I had to go to urgent care today due to a UTI. I called my MO and they just said to be sure to get there today and start the antibiotic if it was positive, and it was. So, I'm home taking it easy tonight.  I can't complain really, I'm on day 10 and I have felt great the last few days. Tired in the PM, but I'm able to get out and do a little retail therapy which was something I didn't think I was going to be able to do.  #Grateful

Hope all you ladies have a great weekend! 

Sharon, that collage series was INCREDIBLE! You really socked it to us, I can feel this upsurge in loyalty and my sense of being in this all together. What a treat! How long did that take to put together? Are you a techie? 

My desk top computer will not let me sign in, and I can't add pics from my ipad, so once I get that figured out I will share more of the progression of hair with you all.  I no longer look like the avatar, that's for sure. : )

Thanks, Mame.   I am a little techie, but these were done with an iPad App called Pic Collage - the grand kids taught me how to use it

I think they were mentioned earlier, but I am in love with the Original Buff head covers.  The most comfortable thing I've found yet.  I finally get my chance to play Survivor.

Added - hugs for an easier week, merg.

SharonDe: Is it BuffUSA.com? I am looking for some lighter weight scarf/hats for our vacate in a couple weeks. I'm just worried some of these won't cover the back of my head, or am I looking at the wrong thing? Thanks!!

Hope everyone is able to enjoy their weekend, or some parts of it. I'm headed for an afternoon nap now.

Thanks, SharonDe!! I just watched and ordered two. I find that all the head covers I have are very hot, and it hasn't really even gotten much over 80 here...

Thanks for the links, mommyq. I am one of the severe nausea ladies and will check them out.  Hopefully, the ginger I am taking will help to lessen it next week.  I smell like a ginger snap all the time now.  :-)

Well said Blueberry! 

I have one friend who said "no chemo" and I think she is coming from her heart, not her head.

She can't handle it.

Others have this crazy political thing where they think that the medical community is making a bunch of money off of us.  

There is a kind of arrogance about it that blows me away.  Steve Jobs was a genius.  He'd probably still be with us if he'd had the humility to believe that drs. knew more about cancer than he did.

And there are a lot of quacks out there telling vulnerable people that tomatoes or blueberries will cure them.

To tell the truth, it's hard to believe that all of this poison is "good" for me.  lol  So yeah, I'd rather have blueberries.  Problem is, I was eating a lot of blueberries and broccoli when I got cancer...

Coffee enemas are real!  Definitely told by a few of my palliative patients that they had tried it!

Cold - so glad to hear the emend is helping. I hope it continues and you can get some rest.

Blue - good luck with the ginger. Now I'm craving ginger snaps!

SharonDe - thanks for the buff idea. I have two I use when backpacking. I forgot all about them. I'm going to find them!!

For the record... that's a total waste of good coffee. The only place coffee is going in me is in my lips!

Quite tired here this week. I feel pretty good in the morning and fade quickly as the day wears on. I took advantage of it today and took my motorcycle out for a couple hours with a friend. That's my idea of therapy. Fantastic. Made me feel 'normal' for a little while. Until I took off my helmet off and had some funny impression on my bald head!

Have a great weekend everyone. I hope it's easy and restful.

So I had to google coffee enema. Don't do it. But it was definitely great for a chuckle. Luckily I'm not a coffee drinker, could have ruined it for me.

I feel like the anti-chemo peeps are similar to the no-vaccinate peeps. I know it is political too. The whole thing frustrates me. I lived next door to a non-vaccinator when my son was an infant, she chose not to vaccinate and her two kids got whooping cough while my son was too young to be vaccinated. We were terrified he was going to get it because it was during the summer and my kids had played with her kids, blah blah. So yeah, don't vaccinate. Don't do chemo. Doctors only want to make money. I don't know about you, but the team that I'm working with, they are definitely not in it just for the money. Plastics, maybe. But oncology, I don't think so. 

Timbuktu: I'd call the doc. Who cares if it's saturday night - - you should put your mind at ease. Hope you feel better. And like you, I was eating pretty clean and definitely organic when I got cancer too.

Timbuktu- I had those issues last time on TC. It was my red blood cells were WAY too low and I need a blood transfusion. . I would call your MO and let them know what is going on.

Golfingirl - glad you were able to get out on your bike. 

Timbuktu - that sounds very scary. I have also been getting syncope and pre syncope ( passing out and almost passing out). Call your OC for sure. It could be caused by many reasons. Palpitations are often caused by low electrolytes. Hydrate well. Gatorade could help. Hopefully it's an easy fix. They don't know my cause yet so I'm getting a heart monitor before my next round.

I'm with y'all. It's not about the money. If there was a cure, I know they'd be glad to be out of business.yes, chemo is barbaric to some degree. I don't want to go thru chemo. Give me an alternative that has actually, scientifically proven to save lives and I'm in! When it's your life, you don't mess with 'it may work'. You take the stuff that is proven even if it's tough.

I wanted to share this picture and the story of the shirt. It the shirt offends you, I apologize and I will remove the picture. 

The story is I received this in the mail yesterday from a friend. Her husband just finished treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. He received the shirt from my friend Krista who went thru treatment for BC and is now 2 years cancer free, she in turn received the shirt from another mutual friend who is also now cancer free. It was  their good luck charm going thru treatment. I hope I don't have to pass it along. 

Golfinggirl - the shirt is priceless.  I doubt it will offend anyone here . What a great idea to pass along the shirt, although I can see where it would be nice to retire it.

It will be in our next updated collage, if that's okay.

Golfingirl: Love, love, love the shirt and the meaning behind it. I really hope you don't have to pass it on, too. I hope it does it's job for you as well.

Good luck tomorrow, Timbuktu!

Mame: Love the avatars!