I am a 66 widowed mother of two daughters and grandmother of 6, 3 beautiful girls and 3 very handsome boys who lives on the NSW South Coast.
My story is probably very similar to everyone on this si...
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Hi Deb, I have just finished my 4th round of AC today. Surprisingly my bloods are all great and I have just experienced a little nausea for the first few days. I do make sure that I drink 3 litres of water for two days after the treatment. I try to eat healthy but I am chasing the taste buds lack of satisfaction. I have a passion for Zinger Burgers. I can taste them. Since I live a 40km round trip I probably get to satisfy my taste buds once a week.
My next lot of treatment will be 12 weekly rounds of Paclitaxal. I am hoping that I cope with this lot as well as the first lot. Time will tell.
I would lke to catch up with you before I start the Taxal on 14th Oct so if you are free on Monday 30th Tuesday 1st or Wednesday next week we could get together at Kiama. That's about half way. So if you know any coffee shops you can be the leader. Wink Wink
I have joined a support group in the Shoalhaven and it is great to chat with different like women, you will be surprised at the number of TNBC women there are in the groups. I went in thinking that I was alone and I would say that I met at least 6 on my first day and after chatting with a couple of them, I found out that everyones treatment is different.
Why don't you check out the groups on the website and see if there is a group in the Illawarra or Wollongong area. All you have to do is put in your postcode from recollection.
I also had an infection during the first week after having one of the drains removed and going home only to find myself back in A&E halucinating with extremely high temps and having to have another op to cleanout the infection and insert two new drains. FAR OUT didn't want that as they hurt more than the mastectomy as I am sure you would already know.
Look forward to meeting you...............Marie