I had to return to Dallas on Thursday to continue my
infusion therapy and get a checkup from Dr. S.
Before I went to his office, I stopped by MCD’s case manager office to
pick up some paperwork. While there, I
met a volunteer, we’ll call her Ann, who works with the ACS. She sat and talked with me and gave me a
bagful of materials to read through about mastectomies and even gave me a few
gifts to take home. She said she had
surgery at MCD too for breast cancer and proceeded to tell me what a great job
the doctor did for her. She was even
excited to show me the cleavage her DR had ‘built’ for her. Weird.
Her and the case manager were very helpful and I enjoyed talking to someone who had gone through what I have. They set up a time to come see me after my surgery to see how I’m doing and will most likely drop off some more materials for me to take home.
Her and the case manager were very helpful and I enjoyed talking to someone who had gone through what I have. They set up a time to come see me after my surgery to see how I’m doing and will most likely drop off some more materials for me to take home.
Thursday was my first return to Dr. S.’s office after
finishing my chemo. As I said before, I
still have to return every 3 weeks, as scheduled, to get 1 infusion of
Herceptin – an antibody medicine design to help prevent the cancer from
reoccurring. Luckily the Herceptin doesn't cause near as many side effects as the other 3 medicines I used to get, but it still causes plenty of flu-like symptomns, such as nausea, loss of appetitie, bone/joint pain and of course fatigue. Looks like I still won't be feeling like myself for a while. When I went to see Dr. S.,
he gave me a check over and said that I am handling all of my treatments very
well and he is glad to see it has not caused as many problems or side effects
as it could have. He cleared me to go
downstairs and I was hooked up for my infusion.
Luckily, since I’m only getting 1 medicine instead of 4, it only took an
hour and I was free to go home. Whoo
hoo!
One last stop before home – the Waffle House. I hadn’t been in years, but I love it. The nearest one is 45 minutes from Tyler, so
we made sure to stop here before heading home.
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