Duga
 

Just wanted to share....DUGA FINISHED HIS CHEMO TREATMENTS!!!!!!

Way to go Duga.....You are most definitely The Man!!!
High fives to you big guy.....

Harriecanarie...

This is GREAT new's. I know he is so happy about this.

Doug????
 

Duga,
I am so happy for you. What a wonderful feeling it must be to be finished with chemo. I know I can hardly wait to get done with mine. My last treatment is July 24th. Enjoy your new life now that the chemo is behind you!

Duga! Duga! Duga! For he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny... Let us know how you are doing, but I suspect you are sleeping and couch surfing, and you deserve to for a little while.

Congratulations!!!!!!

Way to go, Doug! We knew you could do it! Please keep in touch.

Wow, I'm really flattered!

Yup, I finished the Taxohe%% and the Carboblechin' 13 days ago! I will still continue with the Herceptin though. The doc assured me that Herceptin alone will be a cakewalk compared to what I went thru! He is one the leading oncologists here in Ohio, and he is amazed at all of the side effects that I went thru. He's now to the point of just shaking his head and laughing with me.

Harrie was right......it's not fun, but even though while I was going thru it I didn't think I would make it, but it is doable! She has been a rock for me to help get me thru all of it.
I have had severe nausea that lasted for up to 15 days after each tx,sleeplessness, lost the hair on my head and face, and most of my body (don't tell anyone dat!), my eyes and nose constantly run, and on day 11 after tx, just like clockwork I get some pretty bad nosebleeds which isn't much fun when you deal with customers face to face! Lot's of diarrea(sp?), constipation, than diarrea again...repeat, rinse, repeat, you know da drill.......all of my fingernails and half of my toenails have fallen out and became infected. I have had 3 rounds of antibiotics and I still have 2 fingers that are badly infected and look like they went thru a meat grinder! Numbness and tingles in hands and feet, I drop everything and trip over my own size 13 dd's :) Skin on my feet cracking and peeling.......but the worst side effect, and I mean the WORST, at least for me, was the tastebuds going wacko! I haven't had a decent meal in months! I just could not force myself to hardly eat or even drink water, so the week after each tx I usually had to go back in and be given fluids because I would get so dehydrated. Everything else I could handle, but dam@@@@, I WANT A GOOD MEAL!!!!! LOL
I've lost so much weight that I have to knot my knees together just to hold my pants up....naaaaa not really, I still look like I could be Shrek's twin brother but uglier

Otay, I just wanted to say that I'm really not crying like a little girl who just spilled her milk and still has some cookies left, I just wanted to say, and tell everyone who is going thru chemo to NOT give up, and no matter how horrible you feel, and no matter how bad you feel like throwing in the towel, please do not give up because you WILL make it. It's not very much fun and I would rather take a sharp stick to the eyeball than do it again, but it is doable! Just ask my good friend Harrie :)

And if you are facing taking the TCH cocktail, or on the fence...remember that you may very well not even have some of these side effects as it affects everyone different. There were some older ladies getting the same treatments that I was that didn't have it as bad and they looked at me like I was a freak of nature!

Wull, there I went again....done wrote a novel again....one of you really need to remind me not to do dat or just hit me in da head with a big rock to remind me to shutup!

Oh, and one more thing......I'm really not the uneducated moron that my bad spellin' and grammer dictate dat I am. It's just my feeble attempt at humor and honoring my hilljake moonshine makin' ancestors. Or maybe it's just a bad case of chemobrain.....yeah, dat's it.....I'll just blame it on that! :)

Gotta go find something to tear up now...........be well everyone!:):):)

Hahahahahaha!!
 

Duga!

Congratulations and my best wishes, it was fun reading your post as English is not my first language, however I understood everything pretty good. LOL. Yeah! I am sure Herceptin will be a cakewalk. Lots of love,

Paty

Awesome Doug, Way to Go!!!!!!

Duga,

Congratulations on completing your chemo!

Joan

Doug, I'm sorry about all of the side effects of your chemo., but I'm glad you're done and kept your sense of humour. You had me rolling, brother.

Duga Buddy,
You are SO FUNNY!!! Crack me up!!
No worries about the spellings and stuff. We know you are smart and extremely driven and ambitious!! Anyone who did what you did under those conditions of maintaining your full-time job, your education for your degree, and be a good dad and husband, is way up there in my books!!
And forget the spelling and grammar. We (me) are all like that. To heck with proofreading and spell ck, we just wanna get our point out there asap.

By the way, consider the body wax one of those freebee bonuses!! Along the same lines as my tummy-tuck for my reconstruction!

Anyways, you sound so good.

Aloha,
Harriecanarie

LOL

I've got such smooth and sexy calves and ankles now that I can put a supermodel to shame :)

Congratulations! Glad you have completed the chemo. I just realized that thanks to my brain surgeries, I generally don't remember too much of traumatic incidents. Really don't remember much about my chemo now...

DUGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy for you!!!!!!!! YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!


Very cool! You IS 'da man!!!!!

Congratulations former chemo dude!
Marcia

AC/T/H class of 2006

Duga...
 

Way to take it like a GIRL!

Duga!

O............M.............G!!!!!!!!

First: so very glad for you to be done with tx!

Second: Thanking the cosmos for your surviving humor!

Third: You've got the inner strength/outer nuts of 1000 Shreks! Can not imagine how you stayed the course.......

Fourth: My own darling said losing the hair on his butt was an experience...had some dirty/funny comments to share with friends, lol!

And lastly: Lyle said the taste for him came back slowly (he was on TAC tho') and in about 6-8 wks all was ok... Hopefully it will be sooner for you after everything else you've been through. geez....

Such a pleasure and delight to 'hear' from you :)

bestbest wishes,
pattyz