Archive for October, 2007
The GOOD, The BAD, and The UGLY
The GOOD, The BAD, and The UGLY
The GOOD…
J.J. slept over two Saturdays in a row. He had not been here for a sleepover since all this stuff started with me. I couldn’t have a five-year old over for the night while I was in the midst of surgeries, recoveries, and unpredictable side effects of chemo [...]Taxotere Times Two
Taxotere Times Two
The second Taxotere treatment went much better than the first. When I met with my doctor a few days before the treatment, I told him of all the things that had happened to me with the extreme pain and burning in my feet, my hands being burned from the inside out, etc. He [...]Taxotere Tore Me Up…
Taxotere Tore Me Up…
It took 12 days to recover from the first Taxotere treatment; that’s four more days than it usually took for the red devil poison to disburse. Because the nurses refused to treat me on the scheduled Tuesday, and I had to go back the next day…I went directly to chemo from school [...]