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Bone-pain – a mixed blessing

Sat August 2, 2014

When I didn't experience a lot of fatigue or any bone-pain yesterday, I felt it was a mixed blessing. I wondered if the reason I wasn't feeling it was…

Every day a new side effect

Tue July 29, 2014

active treatment

Chemo has many side effects, so many, that they don't tell you about them. What happens is, when you have a symptom, you contact your oncologist (or the oncologist…

2nd Round of Chemo

Thu July 24, 2014

active treatment

Today was my second round of chemo. It was actually much less traumatic than I expected it to be. It really helped that someone in the BC Connections Facebook…

Preparing for neuropathy

Wed July 23, 2014

active treatment

I have been thinking about neuropathy a bit lately - in part because several strong women in my support groups have been having neuropathy - specifically with the Taxol…

Not without incident

Sun July 13, 2014

active treatment

So my last post on more extreme reactions didn't exactly get it right. With the blisters still progressing I called the on-call oncologist who didn't think it was related…

Chemo day in pictures …

Wed July 9, 2014

active treatment

Step one was to have the access placed into my port. This allows the nurse to draw blood for blood tests, but is also used for the infusion of…

I’m ready

Sun July 6, 2014

active treatment

I am so ready to make the transition from someone with breast cancer to someone fighting breast cancer. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I begin chemotherapy - assuming the…