Thank you jane for that report...I was just about to ping you to ask how it went and ta-dah, there was your post!
I’ve pinged bunches to this post...she’s probably back from holiday by now.
4 rounds of chemo...well that’s easier than mine...of 6. You have a great attitude, you’ll do fine. Plus you have a great support system already in place-your hubby and the church ladies (lol). My church has really rallied around me, it’s times like this that you truly can feel the love that normally one might take for granted.
Congrats on becoming prez of the Missionary group! Cool. Hopefully the chemo won’t slow you down too much...once you get an idea on how it does affect you, then you can better schedule things. Like f’instance, I know I will be worthless by about day 4 after chemo and for about 3 to 4 days after wards (which was why I was slow to check on this thread! I flat on my back in bed-weak as kitten-which, come to think about it, that is a bad metaphor, since I’ve seen lil’ kittens race up trees with ease!LOL)
Good that you got all your shots before chemo! Nobody even suggested it for me, so now I add that to my paranoia, seeing how this IS the season for all kinds of cooties in the air. I swear, I’ll probably become really OCD about germs after all this!
My onc. was initially concerned about my cancer creeping off to other places, too, after one of my scans looked “suspicious” but subsequent scans looked better and so far, so good. It is so distressing to even think of it going elsewhere and setting up shop.
Have they told you what yummy chemo-cocktail you’ll be on? Right now I’m on A/C.
That’s adrimyacin (sic.)-nicknamed Red Devil- and cytotoxan. Just the name, cytotoxan is enough to creep you out and is very self explanatory! Red Devil, I’m finding is not that bad, so far. That one the nurse has to manually inject, instead of IV drip-comes in big syringes...yikes! And it will turn your urine bright red for a couple of bathroom visits afterwards! That can be alarming if you’re not prepared for it.
Oh boy...here I go again, just rambling on. I wish you well today at the docs. Let us know what all you find out!
I’m going to take Taxotere and Cytoxan. They don’t even sound good.
I’ll be meeting with the onc. in about a half hour. Have a list of questions ready for him.
Missed hearing from you but understand completely how the weakness and fatigue can zap you out.
Please know that you are in our daily prayers. We’ll get through this. My prayer for both of us.
Hope I don’t have to take Prednisone. Don’t like those side effects at all.
Have you had any trouble with insomnia? Or bouts of mania?
If they kick in as side effects for me, I may have to ask for some Valium for Quint. (just kidding)
He suffered through thyroid storms with me in the 80s before I had my thyroid ablated. I gained 40 pounds which I am still trying to take off so weight gain wouldn’t be welcomed at all.
Will post more later when I get back from the doctor.