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dawn · 03-11-2010, 07:50 AM

I just got home from having my port in, no discomfort right now and glad now that I have it in. Makes me feel really sad though, trying not to look to the future and do the what if"s. Trying very hard to stay positive take my xeloda and hope that it's killing anything foreign in its sight. I think I'll get the "pity me" over and done with as my daughter will soon be home from school and I try to contain everything when her and my son are around. Last night I explained the port to both of them during supper and my 9 year old son says, "mommy will I have to get one when I get older too" I said "Hopefully, you'll never have to but mommy has to get a lot of needles to keep the germs away". I don't want them worrying about me or getting upset, but sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. But then again, what is the right thing? Anyway, Im doing pretty good right now, and hopefully will get used to the port and not obsess about it.

DAwn

03-11-2010, 07:50 AM	#1
dawn Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 153	Port In I just got home from having my port in, no discomfort right now and glad now that I have it in. Makes me feel really sad though, trying not to look to the future and do the what if"s. Trying very hard to stay positive take my xeloda and hope that it's killing anything foreign in its sight. I think I'll get the "pity me" over and done with as my daughter will soon be home from school and I try to contain everything when her and my son are around. Last night I explained the port to both of them during supper and my 9 year old son says, "mommy will I have to get one when I get older too" I said "Hopefully, you'll never have to but mommy has to get a lot of needles to keep the germs away". I don't want them worrying about me or getting upset, but sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. But then again, what is the right thing? Anyway, Im doing pretty good right now, and hopefully will get used to the port and not obsess about it. DAwn __________________ Dawn Mar 2006Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu 3+++, Er & Pr positive, 8 of 18 pos 03/14/06: Mastectomy 04/19/06 started Chemo adriamycin, chlophosphamide, taxotere 25 rads Nov 1, 06: 3 years Tamoxifen, Herceptin (1yr) Jan 2009 Femara mets to bone aromasin and aredia June2009: Full Histerectomy 2/22/2010 6 spots in liver 2 mm-10 mm: switched to xeloda and Herceptin will continue with Aredia J Scan February 2011 new onc, switch to abraxane April 2011 NED clear organs, 3 spots on bone scar tissue. Scans August 2mm spot on liver and lungs. now on to tykerb/xeloda Dec 2011 scans nothing on lungs, liver down to 1 2 mm spot. j une 2012 another spot on liver on to cisplatin/gemzar.