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orthodoc · 01-31-2013, 04:04 PM

I hear you. I feel like chemo has taken ten years from me - I hope my energy level returns, but if I do the anti-estrogen meds I'll have the bone and joint pain to look forward to. Not pessimistic, just realistic. Since my onco has warned me repeatedly about it, it will be an issue. He's otherwise very close-mouthed about side effects.

I'm going to lose all my fingernails, ironically AFTER I finish treatment. Nothing to be done. So far my neuropathy is all sensory, not motor, so I hope it stays that way after this final session.

I hear you.
If you don't mind my asking, did you decide to go on tamoxifen?

Trilby · 01-31-2013, 07:25 PM

i'llget bacl tp upi after I mournmy dog

orthodoc · 01-31-2013, 08:34 PM

Tril, take care of yourself. Please, just take care of yourself. And don't mix meds with alcohol.

Nirvana · 02-01-2013, 04:31 PM

Anyone who has these treatments must be very brave. I have been to a Dr once in the last 30 years

Emergency room 2x. I seem to have worse problems if I let physicians prescribe drugs.

orthodoc · 02-01-2013, 05:35 PM

Not brave when the treatment's necessary - but thanks. Just hard to persevere. So sick tonight.

glatt · 02-01-2013, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orthodoc

So sick tonight.

I'm sorry you're feeling crappy. But just imagine how that last cancer cell is feeling. It's ten times worse for that fucker.*evil laugh*

footfootfoot · 02-01-2013, 07:45 PM

WHS^

Griff · 02-01-2013, 09:21 PM

Yeah, what glatt said.

orthodoc · 02-01-2013, 10:45 PM

Thanks ... I'll visualize those cancer cells going down one by one. The coming concept in the literature is that metastatic cells are present in the bone marrow before the primary is ever detected. The idea of being 'cancer free' after simple surgery is probably inaccurate. Unlike many cancers, breast cancer comes back, and back, and back ... the gift that keeps on giving. You don't ever go back to normal risk, even if you go years before a recurrence. Surgery gets the local disease but chemo is for the systemic. So - down with ye, distant cancer cells!

limey · 02-02-2013, 06:38 AM

Or, indeed, FUCK CANCER!

Sent by thought transference

footfootfoot · 02-02-2013, 07:45 AM

Or Flying Bitch Slaps To Cancer!

orthodoc · 02-02-2013, 08:33 AM

That's what I'll label my new desktop background!

01-31-2013, 04:04 PM	#1
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	I hear you. I feel like chemo has taken ten years from me - I hope my energy level returns, but if I do the anti-estrogen meds I'll have the bone and joint pain to look forward to. Not pessimistic, just realistic. Since my onco has warned me repeatedly about it, it will be an issue. He's otherwise very close-mouthed about side effects. I'm going to lose all my fingernails, ironically AFTER I finish treatment. Nothing to be done. So far my neuropathy is all sensory, not motor, so I hope it stays that way after this final session. I hear you. If you don't mind my asking, did you decide to go on tamoxifen? __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

01-31-2013, 07:25 PM	#2
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	i'llget bacl tp upi after I mournmy dog __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

01-31-2013, 08:34 PM	#3
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Tril, take care of yourself. Please, just take care of yourself. And don't mix meds with alcohol. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-01-2013, 04:31 PM	#4
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	Anyone who has these treatments must be very brave. I have been to a Dr once in the last 30 years Emergency room 2x. I seem to have worse problems if I let physicians prescribe drugs. __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

02-01-2013, 05:35 PM	#5
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Not brave when the treatment's necessary - but thanks. Just hard to persevere. So sick tonight. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-01-2013, 07:45 PM	#7
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	WHS^ __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-01-2013, 09:21 PM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yeah, what glatt said. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

02-01-2013, 10:45 PM	#9
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Thanks ... I'll visualize those cancer cells going down one by one. The coming concept in the literature is that metastatic cells are present in the bone marrow before the primary is ever detected. The idea of being 'cancer free' after simple surgery is probably inaccurate. Unlike many cancers, breast cancer comes back, and back, and back ... the gift that keeps on giving. You don't ever go back to normal risk, even if you go years before a recurrence. Surgery gets the local disease but chemo is for the systemic. So - down with ye, distant cancer cells! __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

02-02-2013, 06:38 AM	#10
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Or, indeed, FUCK CANCER! Sent by thought transference __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

02-02-2013, 07:45 AM	#11
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Or Flying Bitch Slaps To Cancer! __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-02-2013, 08:33 AM	#12
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	That's what I'll label my new desktop background! __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

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