Starting chemo August 2017 - would love some moral support!

toughcookie_21, well, what can I say, we cannot choose our parents) My mom, who came to stay with us now, was not allowed to tell her sister, not until we knew what kind of bc it was and what kind of treatment I was getting. I told my brother after the month and a half. And of course everybody I told it to got so upset that I almost felt guilty and it was one of reasons I did not wanted to do it. Another crowd that is just curious about what was going on with me and why I stopped working, I did not want to tell anything to them, the bare thought of them just shaking their heads and thinking, cancer, how awful, thank God we are healthy, and sleeping well, this thought keeps my mouth shut. I have not landed in my diagnosis yet, no one has to know before I ready. I agree with you it can be very tiresome to listen to people's advice. I have another friend who I have been avoiding since the diagnosis and who is probably mad at me right now but I cannot bring myself to tell her because she has always been an adept of healthy life style and is absolutely sure that she is never going to get anything like this (and hopefully she never will) only because she doesn't eat any meat, only fish and very seldom, eats mostly vegetarian diet, no sugar, yoga, fen shui and she (!) follows some lady on the web who learns how to control your hormonal level with the help of food and plants. I just imagine her starting this lecture and I will ask her to .. off and walking away from there. This is just unbelievable how full of themselves some people can be, I do not remember being so myself but probably was since we all think that we will not get cancer, not when we are in our 40-es. But your mom means well, it is tough on her too, everybody has their own way to cope. Mine broke down only once when she told me she would happily traded it with me if she only could. Imagine something like this happening to your child, this is not a normal course of life, poor them when they see us like this. Hugs, Cherry

re: constipation-Senna with ducosate sodium has done the trick

I had my first day back at work today-I'm doing two days a week to start. It was just a meeting, but it was 8:30 to 3:00. I made it through, but was ready to leave at the end (but I always feel that way about meetings!). I had a different problem than others-I asked my bosses to tell the department why I was out, but they were conservative about it and did not, so I had to deal with lots of "How was your summer?" Questions (I work for a school district). I don't like to say "fine" unless it actually was-I feel like that keeps people from having a genuine interest in how others were doing. But at a certain point I did. I just said my summer sucked because I was going through medical treatment to the first few people who asked. No one pressed for more info. Several people said they really like my new haircut (wig, of course), so that made me happy with my choice of wig!

Hi - my doctors recommend Senokot with stool softener for constipation, and Miralax if that doesn't work. The Senokot (plus eatingprunes) has worked for me and it's gentle but can take a while to work.

I have my third AC treatment this morning. Having trouble sleeping tonight in anticipation although I know what to expect.

I told everyone about my diagnosis. I do not believe that having cancer is something I should need to hide or be embarrassed about. Every day I get calls from family, friends and/or work friends to check on me. Whenever someone asks what they can do, I tell them to call and keep me laughing. Of course people will make insensitive comments at times, but it's not usually because they are mean spirited - they just don't know what to say.

KbytheLake - did you tell your doc you have Big D so he can give you something stronger for your stomach. I found myself a little weaker in my AC #3 but I bounced back after day 6.

Clearpath- I'm with you, having cancer is not something I need to hide beside most of my slibings have cancer.

Will be doing my AC #4 this Friday I hope my WBC is high enough to do.

KbyTheLake, chicken soup is what I am having every day. I just boil slowly half of a chicken then add chopped onions, carrots, potatoes and some noodles or those small soup pasta. Maybe some parsley, laurel leave salt and pepper. I always liked it befor, but now I have to eat it every day, it tastes good, is easy on your stomach, it is fluid and the chicken is so good with some extra salt. Cherry

Paulette, it needs like skin and bones too so the broth will be a bit fat and tasty. I usually cut the breast part out and use it for something else. If you can find a real hen or rooster and cook it for a long time it will be even better. It has been my "flu" diet since I was small. You can also mix an egg with flour, salt and water, form some small dumplings with a spoon and let them cook in the soup a few minutes, instead of noodles. When you serve it you can add chopped fresh dill, parsley and basil, it is delicious. I also like to have some fresh estragon. Cherry.

Cherry--dumplings sound really good! I'm going to make a few next time.

Paulette--a little fat is okay and it will make the soup much more flavorful

KByTheLake, 1 egg + 3 t spoons of flour (maybe a little less) + some water or the broth itself, salt. My mom and granny used to make it.

MakeupLover, my Ki67 is slightly lower, chemo should be effective, hang in there. It is hard to make an accessment when you touch it all the time, try not to feel it for a week. Cherry

Cherry, yea i'm gonna try to ignore the lump lol

have a great day everyone

I will second that broth and soup really are miracle food. I got hooked on organic bone broth that a local health food store near my house sells in cups for sipping like coffee. It's so healing! Now I make my own with beef shins that I get from a local farm and chicken I get at Wegmans. I make it in large batches and freeze it in muffin tins so I can thaw one or two at a time

Marooshka, thank you for the tip, it looks delicious, I will cook it tomorrow

https://www.rebeccakatz.com/magic-mineral-broth/

I do not know where to find those seeds though and I am not sure If those may interfere with the chemo, I will just go on without.

Matza balls)) I need to find a place where to buy those. Jamie Oliver has a great recipe of matzo ball soup in his book Jamie's America, the section on NYC food. Since I am of Russian origine and grew up in Ukraine until I moved here I have a killer recipe for bortsch, a Ukrainian beet root soup/stew, because it has to be very dense, that I have been making without any meat for at least seven years and with various vegetables and sour cabbage

Cherry

OMG you ladies are such a good cook I love it. Will check out these websites. Being Chinese we cook different kind of soup, my kind of soup is clear base my mom told me we don't eat the stocking because most of the soups need 3-4 hours simmering. When I have chicken noodle soup is from the CAN. 😂😂

Paulette, I am up for any Chinease soup recipe, please feel free to PM me. Cherry

Marooshka, my oncologist told me that miso soup and soy to sushi are ok. When they say reduce the consumation of soy products they mean stop eating soy beef three times a week. Tofu has also a quite complicated and not very healthy manufacturing process. I am scheduled for a meeting with dietitian in my clinic in September, I will come back with the report. I want to learn how to make congee, I heard the name before. I have also been into ramen earlier this year. Cherry