Struggling through Chemo

I rang the bell today @Rona! Chemo is done! I also had a CT for my radiation, and a couple of freckle tattoos.

@Rona good luck with the mapping and for the first rad session Tuesday.  Love that your hair is fluffy and white.  Glad to hear taxol is going to be easier than the AC.   With the AC I could taste only chilli spicy stuff which is not really good for the mouth ulcer care.  We keep joking I will likely end up with straight hair and white based on the fuzz when it grows back after all this, mine was long and curly what seems like ages ago now before the cancer.

OMG @Rona, white fluffy hair!  Hopefully it will become more normal as it grows through. I often wonder what mine will be like, I was 50 when diagnosed, brownish hair and hardly any grey at all, just the odd sparkle, I was quite proud of that, oh how the mighty have fallen. My sister has beautiful silver hair, so I won't mind if it comes back like that, and worse case I can dye it. Did you get to the Chinese restaurant yet? My taste is almost normal again, and luckily I never had the strange taste. I know what you mean about the leg hair, quite honestly I be happy if it came back on my head, eyebrows and eyelashes and nowhere else, I feel like I've earned that 😆 

Hey everyone, nice to hear from you all 😊. Sorry to hear you are still having trouble GorgyS, hopefully soon these times will be a distant memory. My count got down to 0.7 and my treatment stopped for a week (my last one 😩) and only recovered to 1.1 after a 2 week break, I wasn’t offered the injection either. 

Hi @GorgyS, glad to hear they went ahead with your treatment, it's really frustrating when you have to stop. I have one more to go, next Monday. My hair hasn't started growing, although I thought I saw a few little blond hairs, my husband isn't convinced 😆 probably just wishful thinking.

@Paris_24 I have my radiation set up appointment on 3 June. I'll be getting the tattoo version radiation. The tattoos are freckle size (the radiation oncologist had one on his hand to show me) and I have so many freckles and moles I won't notice a few more 😆 good luck with your paclitaxol, despite having a few side effects I found it better than AC and had more energy.

@Katie46 very exciting that you have made it through the chemo treatment, sending you celebration vibes for Monday. 🎉 I finished the big 4 AC’s and in two weeks time start the 12 weeks of Paclitaxol.  Keen to hear how you, @rona and @Coastiejas go with the radiation phase and what comes next after that, there is always something hey. 😊

Hi @GorgyS, I was only given Neulasta on AC,  thankfully my white blood cells have been pretty stable, just slightly low but nothing to worry about. I did get my bloods done too early once, and the WBC were down a little too much, so the repeated on the day of chemo and they had picked up again. I have my last chemo treatment on Monday 🥳