D-O-N-E..........
DONE!
Leslie had her last chemo treatment on Thursday.
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
She will have some follow up visits to the infusion center to flush the port but the last of the chemo is done. Finis, Finito....DONE, baby, Done!
Roughly 3 weeks from now she'll start the radiation treatments that will be every weekday for 7 weeks. In the meantime, it's just time to rest and time to celebrate.
DONE!
WOOooooooooooooooooooooooooHOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Oh yea.....
DONE.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Tired
If you'd like to know what it feels like to have gone through 6 treatments of chemo and have 2 ahead of you it is simple to describe.
Tired.
Really, really tired.
Tomorrow is number 7 for chemo, number 3 for the Taxotere and we are all tired. Leslie is having a rough time sleeping, her joints and muscles ache all the time and it is wearing her down. She tosses and turns and gets, maybe, 4 hours of sleep on any given night. She goes for treatment tomorrow and she'll be ok until late tomorrow night. At that time her muscles and joints will ache. Her fingernails and toenails are showing the telltale dark lines and they are starting to hurt. By Friday morning she'll be having muscle spasms that feel like she's being shot with a paintball gun and that will continue through Sunday or Monday. She won't sleep much. Because of that, I won't sleep much. Jared doesn't seem to want to sleep much either but I am reasonably sure that it's unrelated to chemo, I think it's just being an excitable 3 year old. That doesn't make it any easier for anyone to sleep but at least it's not a direct effect of chemo. That would really tick me off.
On the bright side, since we're not sleeping, we get to spend a lot more waking hours thinking about how lucky we are. I've come to the conclusion that the vast majority of people on this good earth are related to someone with Breast Cancer. I was talking to a rodeo stock contractor last night about working a show and he told me that his mother lost her battle with Breast Cancer 30 years ago and his wife is a 6 year survivor. I guess the treatments have improved and the survival rate is outstanding now.
Thanks to the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the many other outstanding organizations that are fighting this fight it is finally being won. Don't give up the fight, folks. It takes a LOT to kill cancer and every penny you donate to finding a cure is a penny that might save the life of someone you love.
We're tired but we're damn sure not done fighting.
Thanks for all the support!!
Tired.
Really, really tired.
Tomorrow is number 7 for chemo, number 3 for the Taxotere and we are all tired. Leslie is having a rough time sleeping, her joints and muscles ache all the time and it is wearing her down. She tosses and turns and gets, maybe, 4 hours of sleep on any given night. She goes for treatment tomorrow and she'll be ok until late tomorrow night. At that time her muscles and joints will ache. Her fingernails and toenails are showing the telltale dark lines and they are starting to hurt. By Friday morning she'll be having muscle spasms that feel like she's being shot with a paintball gun and that will continue through Sunday or Monday. She won't sleep much. Because of that, I won't sleep much. Jared doesn't seem to want to sleep much either but I am reasonably sure that it's unrelated to chemo, I think it's just being an excitable 3 year old. That doesn't make it any easier for anyone to sleep but at least it's not a direct effect of chemo. That would really tick me off.
On the bright side, since we're not sleeping, we get to spend a lot more waking hours thinking about how lucky we are. I've come to the conclusion that the vast majority of people on this good earth are related to someone with Breast Cancer. I was talking to a rodeo stock contractor last night about working a show and he told me that his mother lost her battle with Breast Cancer 30 years ago and his wife is a 6 year survivor. I guess the treatments have improved and the survival rate is outstanding now.
Thanks to the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the many other outstanding organizations that are fighting this fight it is finally being won. Don't give up the fight, folks. It takes a LOT to kill cancer and every penny you donate to finding a cure is a penny that might save the life of someone you love.
We're tired but we're damn sure not done fighting.
Thanks for all the support!!
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