After effects from Chemo
Still waiting for my hair to thicken up on top of my head! 8 weeks since chemo finished most of my hair is growing well. Soft and curly - never had curls in my life! Happy with wig for quite a while ...
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By now you would have finished Taxol, Vanessa! Yippee!
The main nail giving me concern is one of the big toes. Very little is still attached. I have been putting a bandaid around it. The others are gradually growing out - half way now - so hopefully won't actually fall off. Tips are a bruised colour and not attached (so I paint them and keep them short).
I see Martin every Monday at 4.40pm after radio at 4.30pm. Into last week of general radio over whole breast wall area. Next week they just do along the scar - the boosters.
I've been lucky so far. I rub on Sorbolene every morning and evening and after treatment. My skin doesn't look any different but does feel a bit sore and hot.
The hair on the top of my head is now starting to come through!! I anticiapte wearing my wig well into next year for most of the time (work and social occasions). But I just wear a cap when out walking and nothing around the house. I want a decent length!! Not vain!! Haha
Very glad you are getting away before Radio starts. Radio is quick, painless and, comparatively, an absolute piece of cake. Then just Herceptin every three weeks till mid next year....
All the best!!
Erica