Starting chemo August 2017 - would love some moral support!

Cherry, here's one more for you! She lays like that a lot and it always makes me laugh. She and the cat get along quite well, eventhough Jack Russell Terriers supposedly aren't good with cats. My previous cat lived to be 20 and Sally was always gentle with him.

KByTheLake, the sweetest thing, our cat used to lay like this when she was small but then we had her sterilized and she got fat and just stopped. She is not much for direct contact and is kind of autistic but still wantsto be around, like this

Here are my dogs. Maggie is the one on top and Pepper is on the back of the chair. Maggie is my baby and follows me wherever I go. I love seeing everyone’s pets, especially the cats as I love cats. I had two but they passed away a few years ago

She’s cute Paulette!

Dr is prescribing Granix shots to boost WBC count. Will receive three shots per week until Im done with Taxol/Carbo. I go on a seperate day for blood draw and then treatment day. I will be at the hospital 5 days per week. I’m going to start looking for a job here. ;-

I just had to jump in with a picture my my 85 pound baby. This is Thor. He was a taco for Halloween. I love him so much. Since I've been diagnosed, he is very protective of me and follows me around. He sneaks up in bed with us and cuddles up to me and eventually kicks my husband out of bed some nights;)

Cookie- love Thor the Taco. Maggie was a cheerleader for Halloween.

Paulette - yes, I should get a case manager job! haha. I will be looking for a new job and the hospital will know me so well.

Hope everyone is doing well. Finished #4 Carbo/Taxol today. 8 more. It will go fast.

toughcookie, what a cutie! His devotion is in his eyes. And he looks like he just ate up his Haloween costume and wants more.

I love all the animal pictures! My husband says I'm obsessed with our dog and two cats, especially my cat Wilson, and it is true! They all really have brought me so much peace and understanding during this time.

Paulette - nice you have the MO's blessing to stop Taxol early. Hope you finish up without many side effects. My WBC is really hanging on by a thread.

R - I just finished #5. My SE's were much less this past week than any of the previous. I hope it stays this way. I will say that after infusion 5 I was zonked/ came home and slept for 4 hours - first time this happened on Taxol.

Cherry - I had a bone scan because of something on MRI - turned out to be nothing. Honestly every ache and pain makes me scared. My cancer center is stingy with the scans. If you've been in pain and the Dr. has agreed, maybe get one if it would give you peace of mind. I'm sorry my "take a walk suggestion" ended with you feeling like an old junkie

Well, I had no scans even though I told them that I had pain between my shoulders but BS just waved me off but suggested we order a usual X-ray that came back clean in August and they said they can see spondylosis and other signs of aging so the problem must be muscelouse. I tried anti-inflammatory for two weeks then later I started my treatment and have weekly appointments with PT, another PT at cancer rehab said it was all due to tension I have due to my aggravated conditon. It has improve somewhat with the exercises and the meds but I still have it and it makes me crazy. So now they have offered and I will do it but I am so afraid, I have no need to explain to you how I feel, I am so thankful for these boards.

The pets are wonderful, I cannot even describe what our cats mean to our youngest although it is technically the eldest’s cat, she got it on her birthday. When our previous cat suddenly passed away I never thought I would feel so sad, I cried more than anyone else. Later I thought that we will not get a new one, my husband agreed with me on this one otherwise at that point five years ago we went through the period when we disagreed about basically everything. After few months it was my eldest’s birthday approaching and I have ti admit I did lurked on some sites looking for a new kitten, I asked the eldest what she wanted on her birthday and she just turned and said: mom, I want a cat. So I turned back, went online and called to the owner who placed the first ad. There were four kittens, all very different but I told her that I wanted a girl, the grey one. She was hesitant and told me that she was suspicious that that particular one was anxsious and not very cosy and cuddling. I replied that well we were not so very normal and wonderful either and we are willing to take a shut. The youngest did not know we were going to pick up a new kitten, we told her that we were buying stuff for a friend who just got one. So, me and the girls went on our own picked her up, got to see her male distant relative who was gigantic, like a really big Maine coon, and surprised our little one that we now have a new cat. We came home and the dad had just to face the fact. He is always telling people that nobody even warned him and I always told him that I felt that I did not have to. I believe it was almost exactly five years ago. Nessie, after Loch Ness, turned out well.

VL, it was a great suggestion, I probably should do it today as well, the weather is amazing, but I am just lying in bed so tired I am. I have done my daily back exercise and suddenly felt nauseaus and got like plugs in my ears and had to lay down. I wonder whether I should take a new blood work. There is a short staircase in our appartment, only eight stairs, I used to run them up, even in the beginning of the teeatment, now I am climbing them one by one and I have to hold in the railing. How is it possible to feel this bad in no time, I thought I was doing fine, even previous week when I had T+H I was feeling better

Cherry

Actually odd thing I noticed today. I thinking have some regrowth on my scalp. Is that even possible when I only had last AC 10 days ago?I also didn't lose all hair on my legs and my nails grow on my good weeks between chemo. Is that normal? I thought it killed all rapidly dividing cells. Starting to worry I'm putting myself through this and its not working!!!

Sammi, she is very sweet and our cat has a shaved part too, the vet wanted to check the infection in her tail a month ago, turned out nothing.

How is Heather doing? Hope Taxol has been easy on her.

cherry, sounds pretty similar. Mid spine, worse on my mastectomy side, radiates outwards and towards shoulder blade. Mainly around mid spine though. Probably tension for us both, but then I get tense thinking about whether its tension pain. Its a vicious circle.

Paulette, great you are nearly done. Home straight, one dose to go!

stage2ire, my nails and hair have been growing during chemo, nails the whole time, and hair after my third of six rounds. I asked my oncology nurses if that meant it wasn't working, and they were too nice to laugh, but I could tell the question amused them. They said it does not mean the chemo isn't working

rlj - don’t look back just keep going. We will wait for you.

leatherette, thanks for that, I was starting to wonder. My husband thinks I'm nuts some times but good to hear I'm not the only one who wonders. I didn't even loose all my body hair...going to need to shave my legs soon haha

Simplysammi....best of luck to your daughter, hope the taxol keeps doing its job!