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Monday, April 7, 2008

A Day in the Life of SVCCC

I seriously spent my day there today. serioulsy.
Here is the schedule of events:
9:30 check in
9:30-10 wait
10 blood work
10:15 pick up pager
10:15-11 wait
11 get chair/take vitals
11-11:15 wait for blood results
11:15-11:30 get preped for pre-chemo drugs
11:30-12 pre-chemo drugs (some steroid and benedryl)
12 benedryl kicks in
12-3 taxol drip (try to read but fall asleep pretty much immediately)
3 appt with dr bernik
3-3:20 wait
3:20-3:45 meet with dr. b (everything looks good, don't have to see her again until november for check up. seems weird - but good - to be on the down side of appt. hell)
3:45 appt with dr. klein
3:45-4:00 wait (starting to fall asleep again - stupid benedryl)
4-4:30 meet with dr. k everything looks good - NO NEULASTA TOMORROW!!!! yay! best news of the day
4:30 set up follow-up for blood count test next week to make SURE i don't need the neulasta
4:45 go home

long day. up to do homework and back to bed. working from home tomorrow hoping for no side effects, we'll see.

met a guy today that is being treated for pre-invasive lung cancer as well as a radiation guy that is also being treated for HIV. things could be muuuuuch worse!

5/8!!!!

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Mallory family said...: I went running with my friend Jessica yesterday and we both wore your shirts...too funny, I had the "original" and she wore the "tank." Even thought we were sweating like pigs and panting...I'm pretty sure everyone who saw us was WAY jealous.; April 9, 2008 at 5:30 PM

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YES! It's here! If you want to buy a shirt to help me out with the medical bills as they are starting to pile up, I would greatly appreciate it. If you would rather not, please pass it on to your nosy neighbor to see if they will instead.
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the back story:

So, a couple of months ago my mother told me that one of my good friends growing up was diagnosed with breast cancer and was currently going through chemo treatment to shrink the tumor before operating.(side note about friend: we were best friends from age 5 when they moved in behind us in the neighborhood until middle school when we moved away- we spent countless hours together and our mothers are still good friends)
so when i found out about her it got me thinking that i had not done a self exam in ages - so a few days later in the shower i found it. i read some about tumors and felt sure that it was benign but went ahead and made an appointment to get it looked at.
a few weeks later i was in the dr.s office and he shuttled me down to radiology to get it looked at. he was more alarmed at the size of the mass than the odds that it was cancerous - so he felt it was better to be safe than sorry and had me to get a sonogram and mammogram that next week. he as well as the radiologist assured that the odds were good that it was a fibroatanoma (benign fibrous tumor) but again better to play it safe and have it biopsied just to be sure.
i hadn't heard back from the doctor so i assumed no news was good news. but i will never forget him calling me back - i was in the nashville airport coming back from our girls weekend and he asked when i was back because he wanted me to come in to the office. i told him preferred to know what was going on now since obviously it was bad news. he said that normally he would rather speak to a patient about this in person but under the circumstances he understood. he then gave me the diagnoses and some numbers to call the next morning to set up appointments with surgeon and fertility specialist.
whirlwind flight back that was canceled and resulted in me having a breakdown with the gate agent (poor guy) and i was forced to spend the night in DC wondering what in the world was happening.
i have since met up with my friend from childhood and she has been invaluable to me going through all of this and i hope that we can both support each other throughout the next months... it is just too odd that we are both within a week in age, have similar upbringings and have this diagnoses so close together. all we can think of is that we both licked the paint off the barbie dream house at some point (we were both huge barbie fans and that was the majority of our play time) or there was something funky in the creek behind our neighborhood. i do plan on doing more research on this because the similarities are just too much but for now i am blaming it on the barbie dream house

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Monday, April 7, 2008

A Day in the Life of SVCCC

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