Starting Chemo March 2015

sea lions and oystercatchers good! Hope it was nice and cool for you

E- I can't help except to give you a hug. Did you get any additional steroids with surgery?

I think at this point I would call the MO and the derm. For some reason I've been spared this wholly frustrating SE.

are they dark or light? If dark, go get them zapped or pluck them. The blonde ones I kind of "trim" because I hear my great aunt's voice in my head saying if you shave they come back black. Probably not true, but just in case. The black ones I pluck. Thinking about going to get laser treatment done if they don't subside. I hate them

Chin, toe and knuckle hairs came in dark though.

I'm afraid to shave them.

I shaved my white face fur and it came back once white. I shaved it again and it has not returned.

Allison, I am in the room for 15 minutes, but most of that is for positioning. I get 7 zaps ranging from 7 seconds to 30 seconds. The techs adjust things at the beginning, remove things at the end, and come in 3 additional times to position the table, move the wedge, position the bolus, move the bolus, etc. I know it is pathetic to know the pattern and count seconds of each, but it distracts me from reality. They change the order on x Ray days. That messed with my mind the first time!!!

I block some forums and topics, put my "safe" threads in My Favorite Topics, and have a rule not to read the Active Topics later than noon because I start feeling too negative. Also, I hate that the tab at the top says "Active Breast Cancer Topics," which makes me see "active breast cancer" rather than "active topics."

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Awesome! But now everybody needs to tell us what charms they put on there and why. I see a few I don't know the story behind, or maybe I missed it on the forum. Like the truck and the dog? And I can't make out what's above the dog, looks like two monkeys!

Lee, I think it is a control thing with me too!!!!

My stupid eye is all jacked up. It has been red and gooey since chemo started. Not constantly but this combined with the fact its on the side of my face that is still affected by the stroke. OH MY GOSH! Droopy, goopy, red eyed, not beauty. Glad it only droops sometimes these days:(

it's most likely chemo. I need to go to my neuro-opthamologist it's the right eye. But I got hair!

Got the stink eye there lol

jumbledbamboo it will start growing like crazy now! People say Herceptin can slow hair growth but I haven't seen any signs of it, and I think I am halfway done.

Any kind of tracking improves eating behaviors (because it improves awareness and intention). It needs to be a way of tracking that works for you, or you won't do it.