April 2015 Chemo Crew... Starting in April? Please join us!

Cross-posted from Summer 2015 Rads. The memes should be recognizable from both threads. Apologies to people I didn't get in--please add verses!

A Woman Named Blue (and her Dog Pink, Too)

A dog named Pink and my friend LittleBlue
Got to scrapping one night, though each of them knew
What the real fight was (and they'd seen a few),
Had Pink and my friend LittleBlue.

Says Pink, "I know some things about cancer,
I've seen it a lot and I've got the answer,
Take it all off, cause now you're a dancer,
Show off that chest, cause you're a romancer."

[Dizzparkmom, GingerChi, gkodad, and the April Chemo chorus and go-go dancers:]
"Light it up, take it off, shake it down, shake it down-down, down-down, uh!
Light it up, take it off, shake it down, shake it down-down, down-down!"
[Addie, spoken:] "You know you wanna!"
[LittleBlueFlowers, spoken:] "Oh, I do, all right!"

"Look here," says Blue, pulling off her chest bandage,
"Make no mistake, it's an effing shit sandwich,
And pardon me for my filthy language
(There's ladies present, but the ladies will manage)."

[Keys-Plez and Summer Rads chorus, spoken:] "Your scar looks great! I see head fuzz! Maaan, do my TEs itch or what?"
[Marksgirl, spoken:] "Yeah, like that Aquaphor don't itch, too."
[Queenmomcat and ORgirl:] "Oh, it itch, sister, it itch a LOT!"
[CAMommy:] "Uh, huh, tell me something I DON'T know--like about Arimidex!"

Says Pink, "It hurts to wear your PJs,
So don't work that thang, just go for BJs.
Fight lymphedema as you dance to the DJs,
And pick up a wig online at the Ebay's!"

"A wig?" goes Blue, "I'm wearing a scarf,
It's the Dance of the Seven Veils till I barf,
I'm Tank Girl, I'm Lieutenant Worf,
Now crank up the country and I'll take it all off!"

[Intense twangy guitar solo, signifying Blue's increasingly energetic disrobing dance.]

"I'm destroying invaders with schmaltz and chemo,
But I like a song that's not too emo!
I live in Montana but this I know:
Breast cancer sucks no matter where you go."
[Kbeee, spoken:] "And not in a nice way."

"Well, then," says Pink, "You'll want radiation,
with a bolus and linear acceleration.
Not gonna lie, it's a weird sensation,
And not gonna help with your lady-lubrication."

[Katy's rap:] "Holy cow! Don't go there now!
Got hair on her chin and a unibrow!
Jack say 'Woof!' and Tutti go 'Meow!
Meow, meow, meow,' break it down, break it down now, OW!"

[Break with various rap-style percussion noises, beat box, meowing cats, chainsaws, tambourines, etc. In the music video, a forest fire is successfully extinguished by buff firefighters.]

Pink says, "Blue, I know what you think,
But though it's my name, I'm not damned pink,
And I'm working for you, not Cancer, Inc.,
So I'll think good thoughts; you'll throw up in the sink."

Then Blue says, "Pink, I aim to please,
So I'm gonna bust a move with my rads striptease.
Now lay down the rhythm, then get on your knees
And pray till there's No Evidence of Disease."
[Positive Spirit, spoken:] "You know, my good friend, NED."
[DizzParkMom, spoken:] "You know Ned? You know my sista, Emla?"

so today I had my post Taxol done chemotherapy check up. To my surprise he wanted me to go on Tamoxifen?!? Yes for 5 years. I didn't think I needed it with being es /pr neg HER2 pos. I'm already doing 20 doses total of Herceptin til next year. (SO jealous of you ladies being deported already) I'm just done with this deal. I didn't take anything before this. I rarely took Motrin fora headache. Now I feel the doctors are just putting me on junk just to do it. Sorry... I'm cranky. Who's on it...had it before.. knows someone on it.... talk to me ladies

thanks littleblue. I think I need cake.

He said because I was young. My chance for reoccurring in my other breast. He's been in oncology for like 35 years, who am I to question. I mean I've read studies about it's use with my type of cancer but I didn't think it was commonly used. I go it filled...it's sitting on the counter. That's about how far I've gotten with it

mammjencoz- my mo has never once mentioned me taking tamoxifen. I also thought that was for hormone based tumors.... I would question it. The answer just because you are young in my opinion doesnt work!!!

Was a little disappointed and annoyed i still need herceptin past oct (thought since that was the last date on my upcoming appointments that was the end) so i get to keep my port until April... A full year, every three weeks of herceptin and lately my side affects from it are just as painful as my lumpectomy still is as well as my port hurting again! And i also have to start radiation but no idea on how long since i dont even meet that doc till next week.

Susan Love says: http://www.dslrf.org/breastcancer/content.asp?CATID=18&L2=3&L3=7&L4=0&PID=&sid=132&cid=576

So I'm sitting here at work sans chapeau for the first time- got my DH to shave the tiniest mohawk into my hair for me and gobbed on the makeup. Feeling somewhat nervous, but wigs and such were really getting me down..

Like I said, tiny. But defiantly visible!

littleblue wish I could pull that off. You have great looks and head for it! Nice!

WoooooHooooooo Last Chemo!!!!!!!!!! this one's for you, Gingeel! Good for you girl, and you are right, the future is bright!

Sex- Yeah, I got some so did DH. Its improved somewhat...

sooooooooooooooo I called my oncologist questioning the Tamoxifen and guess what.... he thought I was e+ ! He read my chart wrong! Thank you all for raising the eyebrow of what the .... or I'd just be trusting as always and would have taken the dang pill forever . Now... what else about my treatment wasn't right....

P.s.littleblue... loveeeeeee the haircut!

Congrats Gingeel!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!v So happy for you!

mamajen: Holy crap....Totally unreal!