Tag: chemotherapy
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8/12 Taxol complete!
🎀Breast Cancer Awareness Month 🎀 ( • )EARLY DETECTION IS KEY TO SURVIVAL ( • ) CHEMO UPDATE! I’ve completed 8/12 Taxol treatments!Competed 12/16 Chemo treatments! The finish line is so close! I wanted to highlight the chemo drug I’m on now: TAXOLPaclitaxel, the most well-known natural-source cancer drug in the United States, is derived…
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Transformation.
This journey has been a transformation for me… one of strength, confidence, resilience, and hope… it seemed only appropriate to document this moment in the journey. The fight. The storm. 16 rounds of chemo. I’m winning. 🎀 The devil whispered in my ear, “you’re not strong enough to withstand the storm” I whispered back… I…
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Some things…
As I navigate through the big C, I have done a lot of digging through my head for the “whys” of me. Counseling and group talk therapy have aided this process… I realize that from the time I was young, any time I was hurt physically or emotionally, the response was always “you’re fine” and…
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3/12 Taxol
Friday I completed 3/12 Taxol infusions. This drug is known for allergic reaction which I experienced last week. The nurse told me this week what you have the reaction to is the preservative in the drug, not the drug itself. So the paclitaxel is mixed with castor oil, Taxol. The reaction your body has is…
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Chemo part 2
Chemo Part 2. Friday I had my first of 12 taxol infusions. These will be weekly infusions. I was there for 5 hours even though these are supposed to be shorter infusions. The front desk still leaves something to be desired, particularly as your first point of contact for your cancer treatment. I really shouldn’t…
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Taxol #1
Really embracing my “no hair head” as Hudson calls it lol last weekend I let it soak in some sun surrounded by some lovely ladies who made my weekend before beginning weekly chemo one to remember. Yesterday began a 12 week cycle of Taxol infusions. While this one is supposed to be shorter I still…
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Last AC!
Chemo #4 The lash dose of AC! Adriamycin & Cytoxan are done! This was the strong chemo and according to my doctor, the “hard part” which she says I made it through pretty damn well. I was a bit emotional on Friday, thinking to myself I made it. I made it through the rough one.…
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Chemo side affects
Chemo Side Affects So everyone knows about the nausea, the fatigue, hair loss… some other fun Chemo side affects I have encountered: Dry Mouth Extreme Dry Eye Acid Reflux Chemo Brain Chemo Bruising
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Feeling self conscious
One of the things I worried about when I started losing my hair was that my bald head would freak the kids out. They’re not used to seeing Aunt Mimi with no hair so I tried to be funny and show them my Snapchat filter pics of a bald me before it started falling out……
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Chemo #3
Chemo #3: Feel like I’m getting the hang of this… probably just in time to switch medications! Lol this round gave me some extra nausea Friday evening… a call to the doc on call and swooping rescue pharmacy run from Kristen and I was good as new. I find that mostly I am just tired.…
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