Tag: cytoxan
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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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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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My hair…
When I decided to share this journey the way that I have, I made a promise not to sugarcoat it and not to omit the hard stuff. As a person who has spent a good portion of their life shoving feelings aside, putting on a brave face, pushing emotions deep down, and training myself to…
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Chemo #2 update
Chemo treatment #2 update: A lot of hair came out in the shower Friday morning… and continued to do so all weekend… there were lots of tears and breathing exercises, Jacqueline O’Kane (why can’t I tag you lol) came to my rescue and cut it for me so I didn’t have to keep pulling these…
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Chemo #2
Chemo Treatment #2 Yesterday I got my 2nd infusion. I was a bit over confident in my “feeling well” and did a little shopping on the way home. Needless to say that meant I hadn’t drank water or used the bathroom for longer than I should have which meant the nausea kicked in Friday night.…
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