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I needed inspiration to get from home to the treatment center on the busy trains so I listened to Harry Belafonte's "Jump in the Line" (Shake Senora) and had fun imagining all the people crowded into the train jumping up and starting to dance.
I also found a lot of the music I remember from a time of less worries in my life, radio music playing in the car on the way to and from nursery school, suddenly comforting; Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Monkees, Jackson 5, Simon & Garfunkel, Don McLean and the Peanuts cartoon theme (Linus and Lucy) from the Charlie Brown cartoons.
These days the new Apple slim notebook computer commercial song, "New Soul" is relaxing. Grateful Dead music too. I blasted Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries as I attacked the cancer during my first chemo regime two years ago and needed to wind myself down with some old Cat Stevens before taking the bus home.
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Kathy S in Tokyo (44)
11/2004 partial masectomy (clear margins) - ER/PR++ HER+++
12/2004 Tamoxifen
11/2005 Clavicle & neck lymph nodes mets
30 Days rads, 7 months CEF-T Chemo
6/2006 mid chemo lung mets oral toremifene
10/2006 changed hospitals
12/2006 Tamoxifen and monthly Zoladex
2/2007 Dramatic growth of mets! Stopped Tamoxifen and Zoladex
3/2007 Began weekly Herceptin
6/2007 Added weekly Taxol to regime
4/2008 More lung mets - stopped Taxol
5/2008 Xeloda - 3 weeks on 1 week off
8/2008 Got a port!
9/2008 Stopped Xeloda, started weekly Navelbine
12/2008 Tumor progression, stopped Navelbine
1/2009 Taxotere begins again, once in every three weekly Herceptin IVs
3/2009 Added Zometa pelvic bone met, lung tumors progressing, stopped Taxotere/Herceptin
4/10/2009 Whoa seizure! 6cm&3cm brain mets. craniotomy and gamma knife surgery 5/15/2009 Started Adria/Cyto stopped 9/15 due to progession. Brain mets back 10/28 surgery more gamma soon
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