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  • jewels5
    jewels5 Member Posts: 57
    #22
    cahjah75 said:

    Julie
    welcome to this site. Ask any questions and the wonderful ladies here will help out. We like to listen and encourage. I had 6 rounds of Taxotere/Cytoxan with the Neulasta shot the following day. I had minimal side effects - lost hair day 15, drank lots of water, used Biotene toothpaste & mouthwash, and plastic silverware (never had metal taste in mouth). There are some great sites to get hats or if you prefer a wig go to a Look Good, Feel Better program that is sponsored by the ACS. I wish you well through your journey. I finished chemo Dec. 7, 2010 and rads Feb. 15, 2011. I had bilateral mastectomy in June 2010 for Invasive Lobular Carcinomna in one breast and Lobular Carcinoma in Situ in the other breast. I'm the 5th bc victim in my family. I'm the oldest of 4 girls and 3 of us have had bc. We are survivors.
    {{hugs}} Char

    Hi Ladies
    Once again I am in awe. Thank you for more of the warm welcome messages. I am saddened to read so many going through this, but at the same time hearing from you gives me encouragement and hope. Thank you again for all the advice. I will be back soon. Not sleeping well from this new port so I need to get some rest as my kids are on Spring Break this week. :) Hugs!

    Julie
  • ladyg
    ladyg Member Posts: 1,577
    #23
    Hi Julie
    I am sorry you needed to come to this site but I am glad you did. You will find a lot of information and support here. We are also very good listeners if you just need to vent - no matter what the reason. Chasing after 5 kids is more exercise than I think I could handle. I think as long as you feel up to it you should be able to exercise. I did to some degree but since I do water aerobics I had to give it up during radiation. I did continue to go to the gym but of course I had to do a little less. I did not have chemo so I can not speak to exercise during that phase of treatment.

    Hugs,
    Georgia
  • Hippiechick58
    Hippiechick58 Member Posts: 320
    #24
    ladyg said:

    Hi Julie
    I am sorry you needed to come to this site but I am glad you did. You will find a lot of information and support here. We are also very good listeners if you just need to vent - no matter what the reason. Chasing after 5 kids is more exercise than I think I could handle. I think as long as you feel up to it you should be able to exercise. I did to some degree but since I do water aerobics I had to give it up during radiation. I did continue to go to the gym but of course I had to do a little less. I did not have chemo so I can not speak to exercise during that phase of treatment.

    Hugs,
    Georgia

    This is one more warm
    This is one more warm welcome...Hello Julie glad you decided to stop by this site. I have 4 kids (now grown) and 3 grandkids, so I can relate to chasing them around and not having a whole lot of time for yourself! I had IDC, stage 3, grade 3. Had a Bi-lateral mastectomy, 5 months of Chemo, and have just started both radiation (for 6weeks) and Arimidex, which I will take for 5 years! You have gotten some awesome advice from my pink sisters, so I won't bog you down with any more. I know how easily overwhelmed I became in the beginning. I just wanted to say welcome and let you know that I will be thinking of you and praying everything turns out okay for you.

    "May you be at Peace; May you be Free of Suffering,"
    Dianne
  • bpatti
    bpatti Member Posts: 5
    #25
    I'm also new to this. I was
    I'm also new to this. I was diagnosed six weeks ago with the same ductal cancer as you. I had a lumpectomy done on the 15th of March, they removed 13 lymphnodes removed of which 3 were positive. They inserted a port on Tues April 12th and on Friday April 15th I had my first chemo treatment. That morning before I went was very hard mentally. The fear comes from the unknown. One of my biggest fears was is it going to hurt, simple huh! It turned out very well for me, it was crazy what thoughts I had... are my toes going to fall of?? are my ears going to turn green?? what is going to be the side affects??

    My treatment is 8 rounds of chemo, 4 are Cytoxan and Adriamycin and the last 4 will be Taxol. The Adriamycin is called the "Red Devil" because it is red. They told me I would be urinating red for a couple of days, but I never did because I hydrated my body so much a couple days prior.That first couple days after the first treatment my body felt "off". Nothing that was dibilating..thank god!!! After the chemo I will be doing 12 weeks of radiation and from what I understand will be a breeze.After that it will be 5 years of Tamoxin. I have come up with a visual....its Pac Man!!! The chemo is Pac Man and every time they inject me he goes to town eating away at everything that's not suppose to be there but wait it gets better.... Pac Man is a horny little devil so he brings Mrs Pac Man with him, so their in there just eating and you know whating making lots of Pac Man babies to help the cause!!!!

    I have found this disease to be so "mental", you hear those words..." I'm sorry I have bad news" and you think to yourself no this can't be I'm not sick I don't have a cough or their isn't a part on my body that hurts or is bleeding it just can't be true it can't be happening to me. Then you pick up the pieces and deal with it sometimes one minute at a time. You discover that you are stronger than you ever thought possible. The fears you fast and overcome makes you look at the whole situation and say to yourself, " there is nothing that I can't handle" its amazing!

    This has been a wonderful site, the woman are just AWESOME!!!

    Patti

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