Chemo in July - Let's support each other!

Me to and I can relate to this newness. Where will you have your chemo? I will be going thru Baptist Hosital Kendal facility. I will be undergoing Caboplantin and Taxotere once a week every third week for six sessions. Then Herceptin weekly for a year. Guess pretty standard treatment for Stage1A, node negative, HER2+ breast cancer. Somewhere I will also take an oral hormone blocker for ten years. Once completed then radiation will follow at five days a week, time undetermined as of yet. I've been reading alot of the blogs and I'm really glad I did. Very helpful to know the reactions from the chemicals that we all must endure. I wish there was more on cold scalp therapy. I know insurance doesn't cover it, but it's really not that expensive on a monthly basis. The results are phenomal on keeping your hair during chemo. Process a little tedious, but once you jump on the horse and ride it I'm sure it will be easy peasy. I'm looking into it as my hair is almost touching the top of my buttocks and is thick with great body. Now that I'm getting older the silver is coming in beautifully. This is probably the least thing I should be focusing on, but since Fenruary I have made myself sick with worry, educating myself thru this process, trying to understand going natural verses chemotherapy, and making a final decision to get on with it. Well here I am ready to get it done and over with. Still scared but hopeful. Here we all go fighting together for the same reason! 🤓😇😉😃

Hi JMSusan and tsambile

JMSusna we have a very similar diagnosis, and tsambile we have a similar treatment plan.

I'm doing 4 rounds of TC, weekly Herception followed by a year of Herceptin every 3 weeks. Ive gotten one done so far (July 6th) and it wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated.

Ive had minimal nausea, which I've kept at bay with Zofran. This week I do have flu-like symptoms, but I'm not sure if its related to chemo because I was a little sick when I started.

Glad to find you ladies, we can do this!