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TerryNY
TerryNY Member Posts: 603
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Totally UNFAIR!
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  • TerryNY
    TerryNY Member Posts: 603
    edited March 2008

    I joined Weight Watchers last week in my continuing struggle to lose weight.   I was browsing through their dining out guide and came across Coldstone Creamery products.   Wistfully, drooling maybe?, I said outloud, "man, I've never been there, I'd love to go" to which my daughter gave me a very quizzical look, "mom, we DID go there.  Grandma took us last summer when she was here helping you after a chemo treatment". 

    Well, bugger, I have NO recollection of that at all.  I think that's totally unfair that I can't remember eating ice cream. I think by rights I should be able to go and have a calorie free experience.  What do you think, ladies?  :-)

    Anyone else have total blank periods of time while undergoing treatment?    I feel like I lost all of last summer. 

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  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 4,050
    edited March 2008

    That's too cute! What a horrible thing--your taste buds had a party, and you weren't invited!

    I didn't do chemo, but I had cognitive loss while on Tamoxifen. It was scary.

    Anne

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  • joykeeperorg
    joykeeperorg Member Posts: 154
    edited March 2008

    AnneW SO FUNNY! Taste buds havin a party LOL!

    Girl tell me about it I forget things now all the time. LOL! I was tellin my mom I wanted to go to this spa an she was like we went there last year an you had a blast......... I so dont remember any of THAT! So pissed!

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  • sherryw
    sherryw Member Posts: 172
    edited March 2008

    Terry

     I had some of those days when I went through treatment.  But, it seems that I have more of them now that I am on Femara.  I always have a camera with me so that I can remember things when I look at the pictures again on the computer.  I wish I had kept a journal as I went throughout treatment and recovery.

    Sherry

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited March 2008

    Oh me!  I still have those days!  I think worse now than while I was on chemo.

    Shirley

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited March 2008
    I think you need to revisit the scene of the "crime" and see if that jogs your memory.  YUM!
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  • TerryNY
    TerryNY Member Posts: 603
    edited March 2008

    AnneW, my taste buds had a party with the Easter candy yesterday and they remembered to invite me this time!  :-)

    Sherry, I tried journaling during treatment and I just couldn't do it, seemed like one-more-thing on the 'do list' at a time when all I wanted was to sleep.  I think I have about ten pages written at several week intervals, then I would have to write catch-up snippets.  

    gsg, your siggie says it all! 

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  • roseg
    roseg Member Posts: 3,133
    edited March 2008

    does your daughter remember what you had?

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  • TerryNY
    TerryNY Member Posts: 603
    edited March 2008

    Rose, I didn't ask my daughter if she remembered what I ordered. I did, however, ask my mom if she remembered us going and she replied, 'no'.....so does that mean I'm more aligned with my 71 y/o mom re: brain acuity or that my daughter is worse off than the both of us.  LOL

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited March 2008

    It is unfair that you went to a great ice cream shop and don't remember going. I'm with GSG - go back to the scene of the crime and try to bring back the taste bud memories. . . Or your daughter could be imagining that you went when you actually didn't go - that icould be a whole 'nother thread.

    Sheila

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  • dhettish
    dhettish Member Posts: 501
    edited March 2008

    Hi Terry,

    That's sad. I am trying WW for the weight loss as well. Just 3 weeks out of Taxotere and my weight is still bouncing from fluid retention. Loose 4 lbs one day and gain 3 the next. Crazy!!! I am with you on the calorie free experience. I think if I can't taste my DQ Blizzard, it should not have to be counted as my points.

    You know, I cannot remember my last chemo. I guess I was so happy it was a blur. I remember announcing it was my last chemo and getting  a Taxotere blanket (whoopie!) but other than that, nothing.

    I now have to write everything I promise to do down or I forget. I promised my mom I would make a banana pudding for Easter. I forgot! I vaguely remember promising to do that. I can remember calling someone but not remember talking to them. It's called chemo brain and MD Anderson said this is a true dx and not just "stress induced". Chemo, the gift that keeps on giving.

    Debbie 

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