#30!
my very last monday to have radiation.
my very last monday to have breast cancer treatment, ever???
i was cleaning out my car and found two Google maps i had printed out - one to the medical office where i had last year's annual mammogram, and one to the medical office where i had my MRI to confirm the bad news on the mammogram. the maps are 9 months old. i looked at my handwriting on the maps and felt so sad for the person i was when i wrote on those maps--when i had no idea, could never possibly imagine what was ahead. i can't bring myself to throw them away; i put them in last year's journal.
Monday, June 29, 2009
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wow, 9 months ago. Congrats on your very last Monday!
Counting down! I am soooo happy for you - and I'm right behind you next week! Woo-hoo!! xoxo Gail
Yayyyy for 'lasts' !!
Hi, Beth again. I've been reading some of your older posts, because I just finished the first set of chemo and next I start on Docetaxel (similar to Taxol). Your treatment was similar (I'm from Canada). I've been on breastcancer.org as well.
Anyway, I am having a hard time even thinking about the next chemo, the nauseau, fatigue, and just not being myself is so terrible. I'm hoping the new chemo has less side effects. Did you still have nauseau with the Taxol (still have to take the anti-nauseau drugs) or just the bone/joint pain?
I'm taking neupogen needles (I inject myself for 5 days starting day 4 of each chemo). Similar to your neulasta, causes pain (and I think restless legs).
Your posts are so positive, counting down to your last chemo, I'm dreading my next chemo and am not sure I can really do this.
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
dear gail and indigo, xoxoxoxo!!!
dear beth, after my third AC, i wanted to quit chemo. i felt so queasy all the time and just plain lousy. looking ahead to one more AC and 4 taxols seemed impossible. i only continued because my sons gave me hell. :) i felt no queasiness whatsoever once i started taxol, and my taste buds came back right away. i didn't take any anti-nausea pills with taxol - except for the one after treatment, but none the following days. taxol was a walk in the park compared to AC. if my village idiot medical oncologist had given me stronger pain meds when i started taxol, i would have breezed through taxol, but it wasn't until i was almost finished that the onc on call prescribed oxycodone 5mg, and i took half a pill every few hours, and then felt no more pain from the taxol or neulasta. all i can say is that i'm glad i continued chemo and just got through it day by day, and it finally ended. now i look back at it and can hardly remember the bad days--it's like remembering childbirth. let me know how the rest of your chemo goes. xoxoxo
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