I had my 16th Herceptin treatment yesterday, hard to believe that 48 weeks have passed already… (1 treatment every 3 weeks); my last Herceptin will be SEP-TEM-BER 2-4, WOO-WOO! I cannot wait, what a friggin’ haul!!! Then I start Arimidex, which I understand isn’t too bad 
let’s hope!
Whoever thought, that one year later, I’d still be dealing with cancer treatments? It is amazing how long it takes to eradicate, smash, squash, squish, annihilate 
cancer cells, what tough little buggers they are! But not as tough as me LOL
Truth be known, the treatments are about what did me in though, removing the cancer was a piece of cake, cancer treatment on the other hand was a huge kick in the butt… the stomach… the head, you get the idea, I kept telling all my friends I was like that little goofy ever ready bunny, I kept going and going and going. Sometimes I was more like that Timex watch commercial, I took a lickin’ but I kept on tickin’!
Speakin’ of tickin, I went in for the MRI today, in an open MRI machine, it was so much better than that sausage stuffer they stuck me in the other day! I know, I know, I said it’d be a long time before they stick me in one, but the Oncology Nurses were nice enough to find a local place that had an open MRI machine so we could get it done, and compare this MRI with my PET/BONE scan. There’s something on my lower back, my Onc doesn’t think it is cancer, but we are just making sure Jiminy, cancer treatments sure is an exercise in endurance!
Now will come the other half of this battle and that is to regain my health, strength, my well-being, may it be faster than the process that tore me down.
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Skyrat aka Gina // September 6, 2008 at 8:30 am |
Not long now til you’re finished! I wonder why they can’t make all these machines open machines. I realized that if I put on any more weight, I won’t fit in the PET Scan! Wonder what they’ll do then? When I took my bennies at work, I opted only for short-term disability. I could not imagine anything taking more than 6 months without killing me first. I have been surprised! I know that I had my cancer about 5 years before it was detected – so I’ve lived with it now for 6.5 years. Through all the treatment and the pain I experience now, I have to say that little, if any, pain is from the cancer itself. LOL
aklaura // March 5, 2009 at 11:35 am |
You know Gina, I reread your words and how true they still are, cancer treatments are a pain in the rear my dear!