The Coaster is coming to a HALT!!

 Treatment 15 is over (total treatments since the beg of July 2010) and I see the oncologist again on Tuesday 12/07 to discuss my side effects and to see if we do the Taxol for the last treatment, for me it is a NO!  The cramping in my hands, feet and among other things so I will still have to do the Herceptin, but I have explained that drug already. Either way this next week will be my last until after surgery, so over a month of no more Friday Cocktails on the Chemo Coaster!! So, now I just have to wait for my surgeon appt. in January!  I will continue to have the Herceptin every 3 weeks for a year after it started, next Friday will be 12 weeks so that means 13 more treatments of that..Will greatly reduce the chances of the cancer coming back..I have the kind of cancer that there is no "pill" form of treatment so I get to go in the office, but will have a life since there will only be that drug. NO more TAXOL mixed in with it..This shit gets confusing I know..am I done or what?? Herceptin alone is not considered chemo..Anywhooo, I will have a break starting 12/10 until after I heal from my surgery which should be sometime in Feb. 2011..


This past week has really been one of the more mentally and physically demanding weeks of them all! I had to get fluids last week as I was dehydrated even though I was drinking almost a gallon of water a day, but that does not work on the celluar level! So, I felt better, but that also meant extra steriods which are not the best for my moods, however I am getting things done (setting people straight there is just certain things I WILL not put up with ANYMORE!), and learning that hearing and listening to people are way two different things..I also wrote another blog pretty vulgar, but those were my feelings and some still are. I am living my LIFE MY WAY...I am so HAPPY that the worst is behind me, Herceptin is like a drink of water compared to what I have gone through, at least that is what I have been told..But for tonight I am hurting, bitchy, and tired!  It is almost over, almost, almost , almost!! Knowing that this part is over, means that I am one step closer to the surgery, I cannot wait to have some control over my body..get a pedicure, get some more hair, it is growing in but it is putting the F in FUNKY..eyelashes that are not broken, but most of all the cancer OUT of my body!!  Here is the song for the week, will post after my docs visit on Tuesday..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Yqkcei_Uw