Chemo dilemma

I don't know much about the type of chemo you're having as I had AC-T.  One of the things that I came to realise is that chemo is a pretty blunt instrument and the dosage you're given is not to do with it being the minimum safe dose but the maximum safe dose.  So, quite possibly (and I say this with no experience of TC), 3 out of 4 might be all that is required (unknown) with 4 treatments being the maximum the average body can reasonably tolerate.  I started getting PN in some of the toes on my right foot around taxol 8 or 9.  By the time I reached No. 12, it was going up both legs and in my fingers.  While most of it recovered fairly quickly after chemo, the original PN response in those toes remains.  I can't answer for you but, also having school-aged kids, survival has always been paramount for me.  However, being crippled with side effects is not much of a survival.  If it were me, I would question my onc closely about how much benefit is KNOWN for having the complete 4 treatment cycle, and unless it was significant, I would pull the pin on it before the PN has the possibility of causing permanent debilitating damage.  If the benefit is known to be huge, I would at least ask about a longer break to let symptoms settle down, but possibly still stop.  But I can't really answer for you.  Whatever your decision, it has to be something that you can live with.