Tag: red devil
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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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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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6 weeks post op
6 Weeks Post Op It’s officially been 6 weeks since Lumpy was evicted. The steri-strips have finally fallen off and I can see the scar. I think it’s healing quite nicely and over time will fade. I will say that I still have some swelling in the area but for the most part the girls…
Titty Gate 