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!