Anyone starting Chemo in August 07?
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Hi,
Kaye- thanks for the information. I'm so happy your skin is doing okay and that you're more than halfway through!! That is great news.
Enjoy the weekend.
Hugs, Jackie
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Yes, Kaye, really glad to hear you're doing so well with the rads. I meet the rad onc this Friday for a consult.
Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
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Hey everyone,
Thanks for thinking about me and all the kind replies. I won't lie, I'm very nervous about this 'new site', and having a bit of a struggle not to sink down into the black hole of a big time pity party.
I'm 30 days since the last chemo infusion and can't say that the chemo brain is a lot better. How about with the rest of you....how long to see some results? The reason I have to wait 8 days for the path report is that right after my surgery on the 18th, my surgeon is on vacation until the 26th. I remembered that I didn't tell you all that she said she would be taking most of the lymph. I know this puts me at much higher risk for lymphedema. Did any of you all have most of your lymph taken out? How did you fare after? Oh, I'm also having a lumpectomy not a mastectomy. Surgeon felt that even with the new issue coming up that I was still better off with the lumpectectomy. Sure hope she's right. I hate that this new worry is coming right at Christmas time but I guess none of us got any choice on the timing of this disease.
Kaye, so glad that you're sailing thru the radiation. You will be our poster child for radiation. You sure deserved a break after all of that time 'sitting on the sofa and drooling.' But you sure made all of us laugh my friend....just like you always do.
Kim, anything new with another opinion?
Hope everyone has a good week!
June
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Hi all
June Im so sorry to hear about a new lump, I know each new development in my path seems to knock me off my feet at first, but then I get up brush off the dirt and put one foot in front of the other, and Im sure you will to.
DeAnn - 50% Is GREAT!!! I think a celebration is in order. Im so happy for you.
Thanks for all your advise.
Ill mkeep you informed.
Kim
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Hi gals, How's about a break from BC? My x-mas tree is up and my 2 1/2 yr old is almost potty trained! What news!! I had an appt for a rads-related CT today and decided to go x-mas shopping afterward. Toys, toys, toys! And new warm snow boots for the hubby (more expensive than I should have paid... but i am cheap). How are things shaping up for you gals? It's snowing & blowing like crazy here.
I was hoping to go to my first "in person" BC support group meeting tonight... we'll see what the weather holds for travelling though.
For some reason, I am 4 days post-chemo and feeling giddy. Weird.
Jingle-jangle, ladies.
AngieP.S. Since I shouldn't be on hormonal contraceptives anymore, today I got to ask the hubby if he'll consider a vasectomy... Priceless!
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Holiday fun is a lot more fun to talk about than BC! Things are looking very festive around here as we have loads of snow here in Minnesota and more to come tomorrow.
OK, so here is my philosophy on snow blower etiquette. If you own a snowblower, and your neighbor, who you are well aware is in chemotherapy, does not have one, and you know that said neighbor's husband is also out of town, it is only right and good that you should, at the very least, go the extra fifty feet and plow a path on the sidewalk in front of that neighbor's house. Of course, even better would be to plow that neighbor's driveway for her. Sigh. Apparently my neighbors do not share my philosophy. My arms are still very tired from shoveling. (Snow is darned heavy for those of you living in warmer climates! It is not the light fluffy stuff you might imagine it is!) I think, perhaps, I have made a grave tactical error in feeling good these last few weeks. It seems that I am getting no sympathy! Darn!
Actually, I'm so glad to be feeling well enough to do it, that I'm really not going to complain. Ok, maybe I will a little. My arms ARE very sore after all!
DeAnn
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DeAnn--good heavens, woman, you shouldn't be out there hefting snow around. Even on a good day, that's a chore that leaves something to be desired. I'll come over and chuck snow balls at your neighbors. Or better yet, rent a snow blower and blow your snow back over onto their driveway. Guess that wouldn't be very Christmasy, though.
Speaking of not Christmasy, it's 72 degrees here in San Diego. It's gorgeous, but it could be, oh, I don't know, getting close to Easter for all I can tell. Even though I've lived in So Cal half my life, I've never adjusted to the lack of seasons. It's pleasant, but a touch monotonous. One is never quite sure what month it is (unless the city is going up in flames around one, in which case, it must be October. Wildfire season). Of course, I'd probably change my tune if I had to schlog around in snow for months on end. I grew up in NM, where we'd get snow that would melt by noon. So one could look out the window, say "Look, how pretty", then go about one's business after lunch. So I've always been coddled in the climate department.
But actually, I can tell it is getting close to Christmas, given the herds of people at Target today.
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Oh, and Angie--hooray on "the end of potty training is in sight"! That milestone has always made me giddy, so it may not just be the chemo talking.
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I dunno Nash, the snowball chucking sounds way too fun for the likes of these neighbors. I'm thinking she should run the snowblower right into their bedroom window and fill up their bedroom with snow from her walkway.
What am I talking about? I don't even know what a snowblower is. I'm thinking it's like a cement mixer. Either way, sounds like a plan for the neighbors. What do I know? It's 75 degrees here, and crystal clear. It rained last Friday for the first time in over a year. (Ahhhh the California Desert!) We celebrated.
Hey Angie...hmmmn. You were strangly vague about the actual outcome of the conversation about the vasectomy...How did that go? Not something most men would get all warm and fuzzy about. I had my tubes tied at my last caesarian because it was free...it was a good choice for us.
June - Chemo brain...uh. Wednesday will be 9 weeks post final tx for me and TODAY i remembered something. It was a pleasant surprise. I almost had a stroke when it happened again ten minutes after that. But then by that time I'd forgotten the first time, so, whatever.
What do you mean by "most" of the lymph...how many is "most"? I had 14 axillary nodes removed in two surgeries. Apparently they take a big blob (that's the proper medical terminology for it i'm pretty sure.) out and sometimes don't even know how many nodes they got until they do the path on it.
DeAnn - I'm so glad you're feeling good enough to shovel snow! But you're right about the sympathy...too bad, huh?
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Hi all. Well, so much for our winter-wonderland... it's my Kindergartener's 1st "snow day." And here I am 5 days post tx. This will not be fun! Or maybe it will (for a while). Can anyone say Christmas-movie-marathon?!?
DeAnn-- you are soooooo right about snowblower etiquette. My neighbor actually has a plow & I have my fingers crossed he will take pity on us a bit later in the morning. Maybe your neighbor saw you shovel and is now a bit ashamed & will help out next time. Don't do too much. You know how post-tx crap can sneak up on people when they least expect it!!
Oh, and Kaye-- the vasectomy convo... I think he's in denial. He may think I am kidding, although I clearly am not. Of course I offered to never have sex again, so I am thinking he may come around eventually. It was funny, actually. I have had some major bad news and surgery this year and the hubby gets freaked over a vasectomy! Men...
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Hi,
Just checking in.
DeAnn I cant believe your shoveling. One trip up the stairs and Im pooped.
Ive never understood men and vasectomy's, I mean we have the babies its only fair!!!
Had my PET scan today. The IV in the foot wasnt to bad. Ill see my oncologist tomorrow. Cross your fingers.
Hugs
Kim
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More snow here in Minnesota. It took one hour and 45 minutes for me to do a commute that usually takes 40 minutes. Yucko! I was 35 minutes late for my Neupogen shot, and I actually got there after closing, but they were so cool. I called to let them know there was no way I could make it there by the time they closed, and they asked me how close I was (only about two miles away at that point). The nurse who gives me the shot said, "oh come on in anyway. It's not like I'm going to get home anytime fast tonight with the traffic." It is so very nice when medical staff treat you like a friend. Of course, they see me three times a week, so I probably spend more time with them than most of my regular friends!
OK, I am forgiving my neighbors for the lack of snowblower help. I realized today that their teenage sons are doing the snow clearing. They are nice boys but totally clueless about, you know, helping the cancery neighbor lady.
Angie, my husband has been dragging the ol' heels on scheduling the vasectomy too, even when I told him that he would probably get more action if we did not have to use mood-killing "barrier" method. (Oh, and I forgot to congratulate you on the potty training success! Yay!)
Have a good night!
DeAnn
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Hi Ladies,
DeAnn it is so good (especially this time of year) when people are so nice and accomodating. I went Christmas shopping today and was pleasantly surprised at how jolly everyone was. Everyone must be high on those shopping endorphans.
3 more regular rads then 5 boosts - "Yeow!
I feel...Good.-duh,do,duh,do,duh,do,duh- like I knew that I would, y'all.
duh,do,duh,do,duh,do,duh - I FEEL good,...."...oops. Sorry. Apparently you can take the woman out of the 60's, but you can't take the 60's out of the woman. (Now WHY couldn't I have learned my multiplication tables well enough so that THEY would spout involuntarily out of me in a moment of ecstacy? Um. Maybe because no one wants to hear multiplication tables in ecstacy. They want to hear James Brown. Point taken.)
ANYhow, skin still looks great. The Nurse said the rads "keep working" (read: COOKING) for about 3 weeks after the tx are done. So they pay attention to the end of the process. I should be fine, but they said if it gets worse to call them. I told them it's been getting progressively BETTER once I stopped using everything and let my skin just do what skin does.
So,...we'll see. Sometimes I use RedBoob as a hand warmer in the mornings. (stop that laughing. it works.)
The boosts are just focused beams on the smaller area of the incision rather than the whole breast, and they should be easier than the whole breast irradation. (I think we need to ask the incision about that.)
And now let's have a word about eyebrows.
Why do we have eyebrows at all? Why do they occur only on that particular bit of facial real estate? Why do we understand without questioning that they must be present at all for us to look normal, or even anthropoid?, And who says they must be replaced if they are missing, or in that vein, replaced in the same spot where originally grown? AND What would happen if I were to, say,draw them somewhere else? Why not..two on ONE side? Two on my cheek? What about on someone ELSE'S cheek? Why don't we have THREE? A nice eyebrow-wig format might be snugly down the bridge of our nose, waving in the cool December air and catching snowflakes from our neighbor's snow blower. Do you see what I mean? You know you wonder about it yourselves. I can hear you thinking..."Hmmn. yes, she's right, of course. Why just the other day I was wondering about that selfsame thing, and here is Kaye, asking all the tough questions again."
Well, boys and girls...I draw 'em like I see 'em. And these eyebrows show up in some strange places, and stranger configurations. And you know WHAT?
I DON'T CARE. I HAVE A SANTA HAT. I'M INVINCIBLE.
yikes. ok. i'm alarming even myself.
Kimmie, I'm glad your IV wasn't too bad. Keep us posted on the results...(i know you will - thanks.)
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Ok gals, sorry about the post-chemo pity party that is about to happen, but I will go on with my post anyway...
I can hardly take another person saying something like, "so aside from the fatigue, you're feeling pretty good then?"
Ummm. Ok. Sure. yes, i guess if you mean "pretty good" as in not really good at all but still meeting expectations, then yes, I guess I do feel "pretty good."
My mom, my husband, they all say that stuff and they all mean well. but it's like, if I don't give people the laundry list of ways I don't feel like a normal person should, I feel like they assume that I am just SUPER! And half the time, I can't even explain what's on the list of ways I don't feel good, so i generally don't even bother trying anyway.
One of my funky SE's is intense, recurring abdominal pain several days post tx. It has happened every time and eventually it goes away on its own. But still, after tx #5, as my husband is on his way off to work, he gives me the "Well, you probably shouldn't have eaten that sandwhich..." Like I freakin did this to myself.
Ayyy-yayyy-yayyy!
Oh well. Since I am still out of work for another month and trapped in my own snowy, upstate New York "wonderland," I just needed to vent, since there is no one here to listen to me. And even if there were... they wouldn't get it like you gals do. (My 1st BC support group meeting was cancelled the other night due to bad weather, by the way.)
Well, I am done now. I will finish watching the Dr.Phil show I recorded yesterday. Don't even get me started on the writers' strike being during my time off from work!!! Sorry... I ramble.
Hope you're having a decent day. And I'm waiting to hear how things went Kimmie. Angie
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Oh my gosh, Kaye, you had me falling out of my chair laughing with that last post!
Angie--I totally know what you mean. People have no idea what to say, so they spout off something stupid in an attempt to be positive. It's annoying, even if it's meant well. I've had people gush, "I'm glad to you're doing so GREAT!!!!!!!!!!" when they haven't even asked how I'm doing and I haven't said a word one way or the other. I guess the simple fact that we're standing there talking to them as oppossed to being in the hospital half dead is good enough for them to decide we're doing fabulously.
I tell people that considering how bad things can get, I'm doing very well, but compared to a healthy person, I'm doing crappy. All things are relative in Cancerland. That usually shuts them up.
And if one more person tells me, "Maybe your hair will grow in straight!", with a big perky smile, I'm going to smack them. I used to have very thick, very curly hair, and while most of my life I yearned for straight hair, over the past couple of years, thanks to finally finding a stylist who rocks and appropriate hair products, I've grown to like my hair. My hair was unique, and both my kids have curls, so frankly I resent the implication that straight hair would be an improvement. I don't tell the other people to go out and get a perm. Harumph.
OH, and then I'll shut up, I had a neighbor bring me dinner, and she says to me, "Take off your scarf, I want to see your bald head."
When I hesitated, she says, "Oh, don't worry, I'm used to it from when my sister had leukemia". 
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Hello, Acme Rental?
Yes, I'd like to rent ONE MORE SNOW-BLOWER. Yes, and please have that filled with gas, and include the "Bonus Bag Filled with Snow",...hmmn. You're right, gravel might me more appropriate, and have it all delivered down to San Diego to the neighbor of my friend with the large mouth and no brain. Yes, yes, this afternoon would be perfect. Thank you.
Ok, Nash. Grab your camcorder and watch out the window.
Alright, I have one, too. I'm in the grocery line with my Santa Hat. A gal I've known for some time is a checker there, and I get up to the counter, (there is now a line behind me) she sees the hat and says "Hey, Merry Christmas!" I return her greeting with the same and a big smile and then she looks startled for a second and says: "Kaye, do you have hair under there?" I said "nope." She stops what she's doing and overwhelms me (and the rest of the line) with this flood of sympathy - dispite my protestations that I'm ok, I'm almost done with treatment, I feel great,(lets get ON with it) etc.etc.etc. I am the consumate extrovert...but I want to be the one exposing or not exposing. (But how could she have known that? She couldn't.)
I feel sorry for people - they just don't know how to respond. I wouldn't have either last year, for that matter. So she doesn't get the Snow Blower in this case. She get's a big smile and a hasty retreat. And the people in the line in back of me get to ponder that Santa has no hair, and apparently it is a Very Sad Thing.
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Hi All,
Just have to add my voice to some of your comments tonight. One of my sweetest friends said to me about 2 months ago; "why I just don't know anybody who has had as hard a time with chemo as you have, why even my cousin who was stage IV just sailed through...blah blah blah blah." It was about 4 days after A/C # 3 and I believe in my heart that if I had killed her, no jury in the world would have convicted me! LOL
Kaye, I still have about 3 hairs left in each brow and trying to fill in around them is a real joke. I have thought about just plucking the poor little critters out but something just won't let me do it. It is HONEST TO GOD the only hair left on my entire body!!!
Kim, have had you on my mind regarding the IV, so glad it was tolerable. When do the PET scan results come back?
Angie, I guess all of us (BC sisters) live in a different realm of what is considered 'normal.' A fair day for most of us would be considered a 'piss-poor' bottom of the barrel day for anyone else. I've come to understand that even our closest friends and most loving family members just don't GET IT!
Doesn't mean that I don't get p***** off occasionally but I think it's the reality of things. It kind of goes along with folks saying, "now you just let me know if there's any little thing at all that you need." Now THAT one really gets me where I live. Why can't people just do something; fix a meal/ clean your bathrooms/ watch the children/ take an animal to the vet/ mail packages/ run a load or two of laundry/ or a zillion other things?????????
I was back to the surgeon today for a mammogram and it was unchanged, so that was good. However, still no results from my bilateral MRI that I had done last Friday. They got an appt. for me next Tuesday with a cardiologist for the work-up prior to surgery. Boy, do I dread that. I know by now that you've all either dozed off or are in a coma induced by boredom! :>
Best to all
June
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June - is it the work-up you're dreading, or the surgery?...I'm assuming it's the surgery. Hang in there, girl. (BTW, You don't bore us, we love you.)
Nash - Tomorrow is The Last Day, eh? I'm so glad...I hope the se's are EASIER than all the rest, and that this next week absolutely flies by.
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Kaye ~ You're hilarious on the eyebrow thing! I know your feeling on the Santa hat episode also. I stopped by a carpet shop today to check into buying new carpet for our new house and the saleslady asked me if I had any hair under my knit hat. She then proceeded to tell me all about her daughter who was diagnosed 7 years ago with Hodgen's Lymphomia. I've never seen this lady in my life and couldn't get away from her, let alone look at the carpets! I finally pulled the cancer card and said that I was on my way home from radiation treatment and was extremely tired and had to go. Interrupted her in mid-sentence. Oh yeah, she lost THAT sale!
I'm checking in from snowy Indiana where we just purchased and moved into a new house last week. I believe that I'll LOVE my new house about 9 months out of the year...you know...the months that it doesn't snow in Indiana! We have a semi-long driveway with a couple of curves in it. DH is a truck driver and was gone for our first snow today! Lucky me...I got home from work and tx (an hours drive each way on a good, clear road day) and had the privilege of scooping the big drift out from in front of our garage so I could get in! I thought that maybe our new neighbors might plow our drive while I was at work since they all know that I'm in the midst of cancer tx...but again...what was I thinking????? We're pretty much settled into our new home (yes, I do believe that only a crazy person would choose to move in the middle of treatments), but I still have the Christmas stuff to get ready. You know, Christmas cards, tree and, oh yeah, there's the shopping and wrapping to start! What was I thinking??????
Debbi
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Debbie,
Some people are just so rude!Hugs
Harley
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Hey,
Kato I REALLY look forward to reading your post and laughing!!!!! Im A really a very analytical person and laughs come few and far BUT I can always get a laugh out of your post!!
Chemomom - You are singing my song sis!!!!!!!! Yesterday I had 5 1/2 hrs of chemo and today my DH had to work till 11:30 a.m. and then instead of coming home to help me he decided to hang out at the garage. till 1:30. NO matter that our 4 and 7 yr olds are home for a snow day and running around the house 100 MPH. Or that I SHOULD be able to rest!!! O.K. And if I had a dime for everytime I get (How are you) when you can tell they cant wait to get past my answer and go on. Thats why this site is soooooo important to me. If it were not for you gals I would feel so alone sometimes and Id
never get a laugh!!:) So rant on !!!!!! Your just typing what I'm thinking.
Nash -
I tell ya what, I would say I cant believe your neighbor, but sadly I can. People are a trip sometimes.m Did you have a mastectomy, I cant remember. If so can you imagine replying " Hey take off your shirt so I can see your breast, dont worry Im used to it I used to have them to."
And Im reduced to answering everyone with "Hanging in there" seems to work. They go right on with there conversation and I dont have to get frustrated trying to find something to say.
Yellowtown house - Ive even said to family- Please dont say "let me know if I can do anything" cause Im not going to ask. Its just not in me to ask for help. If you would like to help out just pitch in. And guess what they still say "Let me know if I can do anything"!!!!!
I try to feel sorry for them and at times I succeed but sometimes Id like to strangle them till there eyes pop out.
Im thinking of you and your upcoming surgery, Hey
Let me know if I can do anything LOL:)
Ggma - Moving in the middle of treatments!!! Yes I think your crazy! But crazies alright by me.
All - I went yesterday for PET results. I wasn't scheduled till monday of next week but I called and made an appointment ASAP because My left underarm and arm was hurting.
The results of my scan were both good and bad.
The good first - Neither of my breast showed active cancer!!!!WOW, I guess thats what Taxol can do Yea.
The bad - I have diffuse spots of bone cancer and its pretty much all over. The doc says it looks like someone broke a glass and the pieces shattered.
And the pain is from a lymph node under my arm and a lymph node at my collar bone thats growing and irritating a nerve.
SoOOOO, I went straight back to the treatment room for 5 1/2 hrs of chemo. Taxol, carboplatium and something that starts with an A.
Three weeks on / one week off. Every other treatment they will add something that protects your bone, Zometa I think but not sure(it was alot to take in ). I told my doc to hit me hard with the chemo while Im still strong. She says she will.
I also told her when they get me NED I want to have that double mastectomy. She is really trying to talk me out of it, saying it wont help my survival. But Ive read alot of articles that say the cancer is most likely to return to breast tissue. And that studies say your length of survival IS better if you have a mastectomy (if the mastectomy has clean margins.
Well now that Ive talked your eyes off ha ha. Ill let you go.
Thanks for the support.
Hugs
Kim
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Oh Kim, I wish I could hug you, girl. I am so very sorry about the mets. My boys are 2 and 5 and they had a snowday on Tues.-- almost a week post tx for me. (I had my sister come over with her daughter to help me, thank goodness). I am trying to imagine you dealing with such stupid, horrible news confirmed with the PET scan, a 5+ hour tx (i have those too) and being home struggling to keep up with the kids all at once. I tell ya, i don't think I'd have made it. I'd have been in tears and probably yelling at the kids and everything. Then I'd have felt worse, of course. And been mad at my hubby on top of it all.
You are strong. And even when you don't feel like being strong, we all know you still are.
I like to sing this to the tune of the "Sound of Silence"-
Hello Ativan my friend,
I've come to talk to you again...
And then there's one of my favorites from the Stones:
She goes running for the shelter of her mothers' little helper...
(Also about Ativan, for me, by the way)
Arrrggghhhh. Cancer SUCKS. Hang in there gals... Angie
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Kim,
What can I say? Lots of hugs and prayers are being sent your way. I agree with Angie...you are a very strong person. Cancer sucks big time and you are not catching any breaks. Something positive has to come along for you. Keep hanging on.
Lots of love and hugs, Jackie
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Kim--I'm glad to see you're keeping your sense of humor through all this! I'm so sorry to hear the bone mets are extensive--I was so hoping it was all some sort of silly mistake. Like the radiologist had spilled coffee on your films or something.
Is the drug with an A that you're on Avastin?
I had a random thought about your mets. Was your first primary 11 years ago ER/PR positive? If so, I wonder if a bone biopsy would be warranted. I'm sure the onc is assuming the mets are from the triple neg IBC, but what if they're not? What if they're from the first primary? What if you could take hormones to control them after the chemo? Just a thought. -
Well, I had my last tx of FAC yesterday. Hooray. I am ready to sit in my recliner and drool, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. I am meeting with the rad onc this morning, then will pick up my son from school. Then am off to a c-spine MRI, as the neurologist is still puzzled by my non-chemo related neuropathy. Then have to pick my daughter up from school. Then I can sit and drool. Or curl up in a ball on my bed, which was my position of choice last chemo round.
Yet another sharing about people who really don't care how one is, but just ask to be nice--my SIL phoned up, asked how I was the day before chemo. I was starting to say that actually I didn't feel too bad, but she was already making sympathetic noises and saying, "Oh, crappy again, huh?", without waiting for my answer.
I was really annoyed. But then, I often am. I think it's from the hot flashes I'm getting from chemopause. They're very pesky, and about 20 years premature. Sort of detract from the "gee, I"m glad I'm not having a period anymore."
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Oh Kimmie...my heart breaks to hear you (and anyone of you all, for that matter) with bad news, and not be able to DO anything. I'm so sorry - it's so stinkin' scary, isn't it? I've read on these boards about the fear of recurrance never really leaving, and I understand that. Even though I'm almost done with rads, I've never really lost the initial sense/wake-up call of the first diagnosis. and the sense of "what if...". People ask me (essentially, in different ways), "so you're fine now?" because they think treatment is over, it's done, hopefully she's ok now...and you can't stop to explain to everyone that "SO FAR" everything's ok. "SO FAR" is a very big phrase now.
And I've said it before, but it bears repeating: You young girls have my admiration. Doing this at 53 was traumatic enough. I can't imagine doing this with little children, in my 20's or 30's.
Life is a gift, and it's a wonderful gift, and it's worth fighting for. You are doing a great job...and I wish I could hug you (or babysit...that would help more, huh?)
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Chemo injustice alert! Chemo injustice alert!
Ok ladies, tell me if this sounds fair to you: Not only did I wake up the other day with a period (a week after chemo!) but I am also covered in little pimples (front and back!). I have the skin of a 14 year old boy!
It's amusing to me that I don't mind walking around tit-less but bad skin makes me want to hide.
Well I was just so irritated about the whole period and hormone thing I had to mention it. Who would have thought several months ago we'd be telling "strangers" such details! Have a nice day... Angie
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hI ALL,
Nash - Ill try and remember to ask my doc, about that. Interesting.
Chemomom - I broke out in little bumps (zits) a couple of times during treatment. The Doc. said it was from the steroids.
OK New question.
My new chemo is Avastin. added to the taxol and carbo I was already getting.
This time around I felt like *hit!! And have felt that way for 4 days. Do you think its because of the new addition of Avastin OR the fact they didn't think I needed the Pills after chemo this time? (last series of chemo they sent me home with anti-nausea and steroid pills to take for 3 days)
Since I'm doing this weekly I really do not want to be feeling so bad for 4-5 days after treatment.
Hugs
Kim
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Hey,
do any of you know anything about Cancer treatment centers of america?
Kim
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