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Peta_Kaye
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13 years ago

The next step

I had my lumpectomy and node biopsy on the 12th Mach 2013, and recieved my results yesterday.  Good news, clear margins and no node involvement.  So now another couple of weeks waiting to find out about chemo.  I hate waiting.  I much prefer doing.  Well, I'd actually prefer to not have cancer, but hey!  we can't win all the time right? 

 

Anyway my "Journey" is about to begin in earnest.  I am afraid of what effect it will have on my family life, especially my kids.   They're only young, and they need me.  I know chemo and radiation is better than dead, but all I ever read about is the horror stories of chemo, and the negatives.  Surely there has to be a positive story out there somewhere.  

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  • sharond's avatar
    sharond
    Member
    13 years ago

    Hi janne

    Cold caps are a system of cooling down your scalp for an hour before, during chemo and four hrs after, so that the chemo drugs don't get a chance to make your hair fall out.

    They aren't appropriate for all the drugs, but you may be using ones that they will work for.

    There's no Australian distributor, so the lovely Vanessa (who used them herself as a chemo patient before taking over the business) can arrange it. Here's the website if you want to read up about them. I had my second treatment today and I still have hair!

    Www.penguincoldcaps.co.nz

    Good luck!

    Sharon