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GayleMc said:

Hi BMS, I'd like to welcome
Hi BMS, I'd like to welcome you and send my best wishes to you. I do not live in the DC area anymore, but spent most of my life between NOVA and suburban MD. Where are you located? I miss the area very much.

NOVA
Northern, VA...Centreville. Been here for 25 years and love it. Just was wondering if there were any toher people on the board from the area.

Bonnie

pinkflutterby

BMS said:

NOVA
Northern, VA...Centreville. Been here for 25 years and love it. Just was wondering if there were any toher people on the board from the area.

Bonnie

Hi Bonnie
Sorry you had to come here but I'm glad you found us. I have had different treatments, the main effect on me has been severe tiredness the few days after treatment. Hoping thats all you have to deal with. Like others have said take it easy, and as my oncologist says, take advantage of the disease and let people help you!!!

Dee

pinkflutterby said:

Hi Bonnie
Sorry you had to come here but I'm glad you found us. I have had different treatments, the main effect on me has been severe tiredness the few days after treatment. Hoping thats all you have to deal with. Like others have said take it easy, and as my oncologist says, take advantage of the disease and let people help you!!!

new too
Hi Bonnie and welcome

Im new too and the women here have been amazing..so many stories of courage and strength and more wisdom that all the info you can find on the web!!!

I had a masectomy 2 weeks ago and due to start chemo in 3 weeks. My onc said to me that the 3 weekly TEC would be much harder than the weekly T but Im yet to actually do it!! Will keep you posted

Dee

tgf

Dee said:

new too
Hi Bonnie and welcome

Im new too and the women here have been amazing..so many stories of courage and strength and more wisdom that all the info you can find on the web!!!

I had a masectomy 2 weeks ago and due to start chemo in 3 weeks. My onc said to me that the 3 weekly TEC would be much harder than the weekly T but Im yet to actually do it!! Will keep you posted

Dee

taxol
I had 12 weeks of taxol ... and had very few problems. In fact I slept through most of the treatments. All of the side effects were totally manageable ... I had rashes and the oncologist sent me to the dermatologist ... and when my hair started falling out on day 15 I called a friend and told her I was on my way over for her to shave my head. After she finished I put on my hat and we went out for dinner.

I know others have a rough time ... and I am very thankful that I didn't because I'm basically a big baby when it comes to being sick ... but my entire "adventure" ... lumpectomy, chemo, radiation ... went just fine. I will admit that the second I heard my diagnosis ... I think my brain/body went into automatic pilot ... and from then on it was sort of a robotic/out-of-body experience. But ... whatever my brain did ... it worked for me. I think if one of the doctors had told me to jump off a bridge ... I probably would have done it. :-)

Take care ... and I wish you smooth sailing through taxol!

hugs.

teena

beetle25

tgf said:

taxol
I had 12 weeks of taxol ... and had very few problems. In fact I slept through most of the treatments. All of the side effects were totally manageable ... I had rashes and the oncologist sent me to the dermatologist ... and when my hair started falling out on day 15 I called a friend and told her I was on my way over for her to shave my head. After she finished I put on my hat and we went out for dinner.

I know others have a rough time ... and I am very thankful that I didn't because I'm basically a big baby when it comes to being sick ... but my entire "adventure" ... lumpectomy, chemo, radiation ... went just fine. I will admit that the second I heard my diagnosis ... I think my brain/body went into automatic pilot ... and from then on it was sort of a robotic/out-of-body experience. But ... whatever my brain did ... it worked for me. I think if one of the doctors had told me to jump off a bridge ... I probably would have done it. :-)

Take care ... and I wish you smooth sailing through taxol!

hugs.

teena

Hi Bonnie:
Welcome to
Hi Bonnie:
Welcome to the site but sorry you had to find us. I did not have the same treatment that you have but I know that all the side effects are managable.

Good luck

Beetle

BMS

beetle25 said:

Hi Bonnie:
Welcome to
Hi Bonnie:
Welcome to the site but sorry you had to find us. I did not have the same treatment that you have but I know that all the side effects are managable.

Good luck

Beetle

Thanks
Thanks to everyone for the welcome. I am heading to see my onc on Thursday to talk about these last 2 chemo treatments. My hair has just started to groww back and I'm sure will fall out again after we start. Bummer!!

I do have a question for you all...

I had 11 lymph nodes removed during the lumpectomy. At the inciscion site for the node removal, I have a lot of swelling...might even be fluid retention. The drain was in for almost a week and removed after drainage stopped, but now I have this lump. Surgeon's office said to call back in another week if it is still fairly large or becomes painful.

Anyone else experience this?

survivorbc09

BMS said:

Thanks
Thanks to everyone for the welcome. I am heading to see my onc on Thursday to talk about these last 2 chemo treatments. My hair has just started to groww back and I'm sure will fall out again after we start. Bummer!!

I do have a question for you all...

I had 11 lymph nodes removed during the lumpectomy. At the inciscion site for the node removal, I have a lot of swelling...might even be fluid retention. The drain was in for almost a week and removed after drainage stopped, but now I have this lump. Surgeon's office said to call back in another week if it is still fairly large or becomes painful.

Anyone else experience this?

I didn't have the swelling,
I didn't have the swelling, but, it could be fluid retention. Good thing you are seeing your oncologist Thursday. Be sure to let him know about it. And, I would probably try to get in to see the surgeon too, maybe do it on Thursday also? Why wait since it is troubling you. Good luck and let us know.


Hugs, Jan