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Thank you all so much for your replies. I feel much better now, and that means alot with the holidays coming up. It was very hard to concentrate aon anything else.
Ruth- I have finished my Taxol- about 1 month ago, which is why (partiallly) I was so worried. I was on weekly Herceptin, and had my first three week dose before all of this started. Do you think the bigger dose had anything to do with it? I told my onc that I have felt worse in the last three weeks than I have in a long time (pain,nausea,etc). We were going to try one more 3 week dose and if it hadn't gotten any better, we would go back to weekly. I didn't have this trouble weekly.
It really is so frustrating- I was so excited to get through with chemo and start getting on with things only to be hurting (alot) all the time. How in the world do you put it behind you if you have a constant reminder of pain (along with many others- bald, fat, hot flashes... :-) hee, hee). I really am usually a go getter and too busy to worry and be depressed, but I am having a hard time with this. It feels like some strange cruel torture. I might be in a crazy ward before this is all over......
Marejo- thanks for the verse. My favorite is Matthew 6:25 Do not worry
I lose sight now and then and am grateful for friends like you that help.
Love, Kelly
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dx'd 05/06, 37 years old
er/pr-, Her2+, grade 3
double mastectomy, immediate reconstruction- implants
Stage 2b, 2 tumors- 2.2 cm and 0.6 cm, 3/5 + nodes
all scans clear
genetic testing- negative
06/06 began dd A/C x 4, 12 weekly Taxols w/ Herceptin
30 rads
Herceptin weekly x 1 year
Herceptin completed 08/07
Port removed 12/26/07 MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
05/17/08 Two year anniversary NED
"We gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... you must do the thing that you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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