Well I got my 2nd chemo today, they gave me an additional medicine ( Emend)for the nausea ( which is about 100/per pill and I am taking it for 3 days luckily my insurance covers it ) this usually stops any nausea immediately I was told. Plus they doubled the steroids that they gave with the infusion.
Our cute doc did the juggling trick again and one of the gals was telling a joke. The goal is being able to juggle until the joke finishes. First he started juggling 3 plastic cows then went back to regular balls. Time passes pretty quick there with Ferit and watching whats going on.
I got all clear for working out from my oncologist and plastic surgeon. The plastic surgeon just wants me to refrain from major upper body movements involving the pecks(like bench presses, pushups- golf is ok) . Oncologist said that I should do whatever I felt like doing and there was no limits.
Have an appointment with a Physical Therapist to asess me and work on any shoulder, chest weaknesses/flexibility issues that are due to the surgery.
The Plastic surgeon still did not inflate me ( the incision sites are still red), and I started losing my hair... joy ! Bald and flat .. hmmm.. will look like one of those aliens in the cartoons, especially when the 'red devil' chemo agent turns my skin greenish the second day of treatment.
Today a research had been published about Taxol the second chemo agent I am scheduled to get end of November..
"The widely used chemotherapy drug Taxol does not work for the most common form of breast cancer and helps far fewer patients than has been believed, surprising new research suggests.
If further study bears this out, more than 20,000 women each year in the United States alone might be spared the side effects of this drug or similar ones without significantly raising the risk their cancer will return. That would be roughly half of all breast cancer patients who get chemo now."
Well I happen to be in the category who will not benefit from this chemo agent.
My oncologist said that the research was conducted by a very reputable person and should be trusted, this study was done on traditional ( not dose dense like I am getting ) chemo, however he said that he thought that the results would probably be same for dose dense patients too.
Ohh.. and we brought up the issue of radiation or further surgery.
He is definitely against radiation, and said that I might want to consider removing additional lymph nodes after chemo if I choose to do so but he really did not think that is really mandatory either.
Hmm.. so maybe I can get away with no additional surgery, no radiation and maybe not get the taxol treatment ? That would free me mid-november. But my hunch is that I will go ahead with the taxol and not risk anything...
Geeshh I thought that I was done with the decision making, here we go again !
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