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Beating Breast Cancer

HOW SUITE IT ISN’T…

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Ok, so it took me a while to settle in and write about my first chemo treatment.  Basically because I’m finally coming around to feeling human enough to do it. Thank you to those checking in asking how I’m doing, I hope to be able to update here faster down the line if possible.

I’m doing fine now…but there’s really no way to sugarcoat it, the process and the chemo isn’t fun download your free card from the bodensee-radweg. It’s like you have the worst flu of your life, and on top of that you’ve been poisoned. I know it’s necessary, and life saving, but honestly I think it should be used as punishment in prisons and not on people just doing their best to get by.  Here’s why:

  • It took 7 hours from the first finger prick to test my blood until the final drip of anti-nausea meds trickled through my veins video uit messenger downloaden.
  • The first visit in the morning was to the lab for a blood test around 10:30am. After the lab tested my blood I then had to see my oncologist.
  • The oncologist was running behind…like 2 hours behind. The waiting room is nice, but it is full of women all there for the same thing, all in various phases so it’s not a fun place to sit around video van yt download.
  • Once I saw my doctor, she  went over my vitals, talked about the chemo and answered any last minute questions.  And even though she is super smart and thorough, the only thing she could tell me to sum up my first treatment was that I’d know “something happened” afterwards.
  • When I was deemed healthy enough to take on chemo the pharmacy began preparing my meds while I waited for my “suite” to open up.
  • My nurse and an associate then went over more chemo information and tips for at-home care why can't I download skype. They showed me how to give myself the shot of Neulasta to help raise my white blood cell count back up, and then asked me to try.
  • Apparently my rage stab into the fake human flesh was good enough for them to trust I’d be able to stick myself the following morning.
  • Finally, about 5 hours after the first lab visit, my name was called and I was directed to the suite you see in the picture above.
  • Sure, it’s a nice suite and it’s great to be getting your infusions in private, but if I had my way it would be a suite in a fun Caribbean beach resort hotel download gba games for free.
  • I think I should bring artwork and furnishings from home next time and make it less clinical and more homey, starting with my coffee pot.
  • After I got settled into the suite the nurses cross referenced my meds and then my nurse started hanging every plastic bag full of liquids in the room.
  • She first gave me anti-nausea meds as well as a saline IV to help with dehydration.
  • Then she meticulously pushed 3 vials of vampire red chemo into my vein, mixing it with the saline app herunterladen mp3 kostenlos.
  • After that chemo drug, she gave me the second chemo drug.
  • Then another anti-nausea med.
  • When that was finished I was good to go home.
  • A couple hours at home and I started to feel nauseous. And yes, I could tell “something happened.”
  • I called the resident doctor and he said to immediately begin the anti-nausea meds they sent me home with google chrome browser download mac.  That continued for the next five days.
  • Every time I would feel nauseous I’d take a pill, then wait for it to kick in as I paced around and felt like my hungover 20 year old self in college the day after a huge weekend party.  Or a Wednesday. Because let’s face it, in college every day is the weekend.
  • I took the steroids, gave myself the shot (with less rage since it was my own flesh) and sat and waited for all the various side effects to hit how long can you from netflix movies. When they did, I took the at home medications and they eventually helped.
  • The nurses called to check in and gave me tips and said for sure we’d adjust medications to help with the nausea the next time, but at least now we know “what to expect.”
  • Roughly a week later I felt like I was part of civilization again and made my way back to work, being sure not to overdo it because my immune system is in the toilet and I can’t risk getting sick.

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So that’s about it. Right now I feel ok, aside from the crazy fatigue I knew was going to happen because everyone told me it would.  It’s a hard thing to adjust to, I’m not normally a napper and am usually running from morning to night with no problem. Now, I have to conserve energy, take cat naps and only do so much during the day if I want to be awake past 8pm.

Every day gets a little better and I’m enjoying being able to do a few fun things here and there. So I know there is a light at the end of the chemo infusion tunnel.

Well, until Friday…when I head back in for Round 2, where I’ll sit and wait for that last drip to hit so I can go home sweet home.

 

Beating Breast Cancer

BAND OF BADASSES

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Often women get a bad rap when it comes to supporting each other. There’s a zillion articles and stories about how they tear each other down, rip them to shreds behind their backs and try to sabotage them in some way herunterladen. And sometimes unfortunately, that’s true.

But more often than not, it goes the other way. And there’s nothing like a breast cancer diagnosis to prove it download or download.

As soon as I mentioned my diagnosis, women I know who also have or had breast cancer instantly reached out to me. Friends of friends who know people who have been through it or are going through it put me in touch with their friends herunterladen. And every last one of them, without hesitation, offered me their help, assistance, knowledge, ears and shoulders. Some of these women are now cancer free herunterladen. Others are still in various stages of treatment. Everyone pretty much went on the same journey, some just took different roads. A few didn’t need chemo, some chose mastectomies over lumpectomies, and one is a recurring survivor Farm frenzy 2 free download german. All of these women have given me the gift of their time, patience, understanding and compassion, but they also have given me something that is needed more than anything else when going down this path – strength download series for free.

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Until recently when I got an email from my cousin, Erin, asking how I was doing fotos von sd karte herunterladen. She signed off with, “I love you. You are badass…”
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And there you have it. There is no other way to describe this band of women sticking together and stepping up. They are badasses who, after finding out another was among them, instantly pulled me in and created a protective barrier between me and cancer. They are not going to let it get to me, not while they’re around. They have gone to war and came out victorious, raising their physical, emotional and mental scars up like trophies, their last F U to cancer. And they are making damn sure I will raise my own when it’s time.

It’s every last one of these badasses who I will be thinking of as the medical oncologist goes through my long treatment plan with me again on Friday morning. And when the nurse puts that IV needle in to start the first phase of my chemo. And when I drag myself from appointment to appointment to appointment, making sure I’m strong enough to continue.

And it will be every last one of these badasses that I will thank when I finally hear the words in April of 2017, “You’re all done.”

And since I’m now a member of this club no one wants to belong to, this much I know; When I get that call, email or text that someone who knows someone who knows someone just got diagnosed with breast cancer, I will be there for her, letting her know that she too, is a badass.