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1st treatment - an adventure
Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. I read all the responses before I left for treatment and I must say I felt so strong and so much love.
They gave me the benadryl and it made my fell really weird so they are going to give more slowly next time. They did the decadron and the heart burn meds then came taxol. I got less then 1 oz of the medicine in me and my heart started racing, I couldn't breath, and they say I was fire red. The nurses were wonderful. The surrounded me and immediately, stopped the meds and start the counter action meds. It got so bad they had to give me pain meds. But after an hours I was myself again and they decided to start the 2nd medicine...carboplatin. I did ok on that one. The 3rd and the most important medicine to me was herceptin. Unfortunately I had another reaction but not as bad. They stopped it, gave me more steroids, waited 30 minutes and started it again. Again I had a reaction. They decided it was time for me to go home. They are planing to try the herceptin again next Friday and they are going to change taxol to Taxotere. I think I dread next Friday more then I did this past Friday. I really need to be able to take herceptin. I am her2+++. What happens if I can't take herceptin? Has anyone else not been able to take it?
I am doing ok today just really tired. I'm surprised. 3 years ago after my first treatment I didn't feel any different. I didn't have problems until after the 2nd treatment. This one just seems to have hit me a little harder.
Thank you for being here and spending some of your time to help support others. You are each a gift from God.
Love you all,
Angela
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