2009 - More Chemo

Merry Christmas, you got chemo!

And the Year 2008, went out quietly.

2009

Happy New Year, You've got more chemo...................

The chemo treatments continue. I felt out of it and VERY ill. It is as if your body is trying to squeeze every drop of poison out of your system. I sweated, got cold, got very sick. Surprisingly, to a lot of people, I did not experience much nausea. I was given anti-nausea medication, steroids, fluid IV, and a cocktail of medications before, during, and after the chemo treatment. I took a pill on Day One - the first day of chemo, a very expensive pill, for anti - nausea. I took Reglan and other anti - nausea meds were administered during the treatments.
All of the anti - nausea meds were of a newer generation and they worked pretty well for me. I really didn't have much nausea, but felt ill, as in worse that the worse flu you can have.

Three weeks after my first chemo, I cut my hair to my shoulders, knowing that very soon, my hair would be coming out. The chemo nurses and my oncologist had advised me that it would be coming out.

They were right...............my hair begain to come out in large clumps about 3 and a half weeks since the first chemo.

One Year Ago - in January 2009, I had my hairdresser shave my head. I had read about other breast cancer patients and I had gotten a wig. I decided that having my hair come out daily and having it fall into the shower would be more depressing and stressful than just getting my head shaved. Very shocking, but at that point, I spent so much time being sick from the chemo, that I didn't really deal with it.