i am still getting heartburn everynight. it only goes away when i take pepcid. my throat started to hurt this weekend. it is a side effect of the adriamycin. no white patches though. i actually was able to eat a bit more tonight then last night. we actually had steak and potato salad, and macaroni salad. macaroni and watermelon seem to be better on my stomach. i have already lost ten pounds.
this week, there is no chemo, next monday is my next round. adriamycin and cytoxan. i will be asking for a different nausea med. reglan didnt agree with me. it made me feel funny. my temperrature has been holding at normal numbers. suppose to checjk it everyday at the same time. if it goes above one hundred degrees, i need to go to the hospital.
thank you everyone, please continue to send prayers up to our higher calling. remember archangel raphael, he is the angel of healing......
love you guys. good night for now
jenn
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Feeling Tired
just want to let everyone know how i made it through my first treatment. monday was ok, tuesday, i had an appt with the surgeon, wed was a bbaadd day. i had a spurt of energy around ten am. i swept a little part of the floor, vacuumed the stairs. omg, felt like i was in a tornado and could not get out. just to get up to go pee, felt like a ton of lead on my chest.
seriously, inside a tornado........
only a little nausea, not too bad. i am hungry, but nothing is really appealing to me.....i requested spaghetti tonight. the most i have eaten besides life cereal and cucumber, honeydew melon. cutting watermelon tomorrow.
abby and zach are doing great. thanks to debbie white, zachs daycare. she has been a blessing for us. the best daycare around.......definitely.... abby helps me and then helps her mimi too.
thanks everyone for the prayers, flowers, visits..... just keep praying.
this week is over, i have only three more hard treatments of adriamycin and cytoxan, thenfour treatments of taxol. i have heard the taxol is a lot easier on the body. i need to find some crystallized ginger root.....
until next time, love you all.
again i apologize for no caps, my phone wont let me do much except type and periods.....love u.
seriously, inside a tornado........
only a little nausea, not too bad. i am hungry, but nothing is really appealing to me.....i requested spaghetti tonight. the most i have eaten besides life cereal and cucumber, honeydew melon. cutting watermelon tomorrow.
abby and zach are doing great. thanks to debbie white, zachs daycare. she has been a blessing for us. the best daycare around.......definitely.... abby helps me and then helps her mimi too.
thanks everyone for the prayers, flowers, visits..... just keep praying.
this week is over, i have only three more hard treatments of adriamycin and cytoxan, thenfour treatments of taxol. i have heard the taxol is a lot easier on the body. i need to find some crystallized ginger root.....
until next time, love you all.
again i apologize for no caps, my phone wont let me do much except type and periods.....love u.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
1 Chemo Tx down, 7 more to go
I had my first chemotherapy treatment yesterday. We got to the CCOM center at 830 for blood work. My port-a-cath was accessed for the first time. This was quite scarey. I have accessed plenty of ports and everyone has winced. I didn't wince. It went in slick as _____.
I then had a meeting with Dr. Sinclair. We had a few questions and she had some answers. Last week, I had to have Echocardiogram at EMMC. This was used to check heart function. The two meds I am using right know are harsh on the heart. I will have a repeat echo in about 2-4 months.
I was taken to the infusion waiting room and it was like a living room, couches, rocking chairs, plain chairs, tons of magazines, puzzles, small mini kitchen for me and Troy. Pepsi, Dt. Pepsi, Gingerale.
I didn't start the actual premeds for the chemotherapy until about 11 am. The Adriamycin was pushed pretty quickly then the cytoxan started and takes an hour for the infusion. We were finally done around 150pm. It takes about 3 hours to do whole infusions.
No real side effects with meds at time of infusion. I did fall asleep halfway through the cytoxan infusion. My reiki master had suggested that she saw my healing angel Raphael engulf me with his beautiful wings. I did not dream about anything. Woke up with the pump went off. Visualizing pacman chomping down the cancer cells. We left about 2 pm. Everyone is very nice there.
This is the Recliner Chair that I sat in for my treatment. The blankets came from a warmer. I wore shorts, believe me I won't wear shorts again. My legs stuck to the chair. Didn't feel very good.
My port worked nicely. No problems with infusion. Troy was with me and quite bored. He will be bringing his laptop next time.
Thank you honey for being by my side!!! I love you.
Monday night, pretty much the only symptoms I had was a headache, but that can be a reason of caffiene withdrawal. Hadn't drank much Dt. Pepsi. The other symptom was red urine from the adriamycin. It was red when she pushed it through my port!!!!
The cytoxan was a hour drip. I fell asleep halfway through it with.
I want to thank everyone, My parents, Gene and Sue, my brother and sister-in-law, Adam and Heidi with kids, Anthony, Nathan, and Hannah, my mother-in-law, Gail (Mimi), my aunt, Cindy, all of my friends at work and all my homey friends, My loving husband Troy and my little nurse, Abby.
I want to also thank all my medical teams, Dr. Sinclair and her staff at the CCOM.
Love Jennifer
xoxoxo
I then had a meeting with Dr. Sinclair. We had a few questions and she had some answers. Last week, I had to have Echocardiogram at EMMC. This was used to check heart function. The two meds I am using right know are harsh on the heart. I will have a repeat echo in about 2-4 months.
I was taken to the infusion waiting room and it was like a living room, couches, rocking chairs, plain chairs, tons of magazines, puzzles, small mini kitchen for me and Troy. Pepsi, Dt. Pepsi, Gingerale.
I didn't start the actual premeds for the chemotherapy until about 11 am. The Adriamycin was pushed pretty quickly then the cytoxan started and takes an hour for the infusion. We were finally done around 150pm. It takes about 3 hours to do whole infusions.
No real side effects with meds at time of infusion. I did fall asleep halfway through the cytoxan infusion. My reiki master had suggested that she saw my healing angel Raphael engulf me with his beautiful wings. I did not dream about anything. Woke up with the pump went off. Visualizing pacman chomping down the cancer cells. We left about 2 pm. Everyone is very nice there.
My port worked nicely. No problems with infusion. Troy was with me and quite bored. He will be bringing his laptop next time.
Thank you honey for being by my side!!! I love you.
Monday night, pretty much the only symptoms I had was a headache, but that can be a reason of caffiene withdrawal. Hadn't drank much Dt. Pepsi. The other symptom was red urine from the adriamycin. It was red when she pushed it through my port!!!!
The cytoxan was a hour drip. I fell asleep halfway through it with.
I want to thank everyone, My parents, Gene and Sue, my brother and sister-in-law, Adam and Heidi with kids, Anthony, Nathan, and Hannah, my mother-in-law, Gail (Mimi), my aunt, Cindy, all of my friends at work and all my homey friends, My loving husband Troy and my little nurse, Abby.
I want to also thank all my medical teams, Dr. Sinclair and her staff at the CCOM.
Love Jennifer
xoxoxo
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Chemo scheduled Tomorrow
Hello, I am writing this little blurb so that at 930 tomorrow morning, I will have prayers being sent to the heavens for me. I will update everyone after my chemotreatment.
Love
Jennifer
:8)
Love
Jennifer
:8)
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Getting Ready for Chemo
I have 2 days before I receive my first dose of chemotherapy. I will be given Adriamycin and Cytoxan for every 2 weeks for 4 rounds, then Taxol for every 2 weeks for 4 rounds. We are looking at 4 months of Chemotherapy. I then will go back to surgery for more lymph node removal.
I am quite nervous about how the chemotherapy is going to affect me. I am going to meditate and call on my archangels, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael and Uriel to help protect me and also my guardian angel, Meredith. I am going to call all these angels to stand by me during my therapy. they will help protect me and hopefully help decrease the side effects of chemo.
I am continuing Reiki. This is a nice meditation and relaxation exercise. I love my Reiki practitioner. I am learning lots from her. Hopefully, I will be able to become Reiki 2 and practice it on my family. It is really relaxing. Meditation. I see beautiful colors while I am relaxed. Pink and Purple. These are healing colors. I were my rose quartz everyday. I will be adding some amethyst as well to my healing necklace. Amethyst is a healing stone, it carries vibrations. Rose quartz is a love stone. It also contains vibrations for the owner.
Tomorrow, I will be going to church for the first time in about 10 yrs. My family and I will be going to Deeper Life Assembly in Pittsfield. Mathew Bagley is the pastor, (no relation). If we like it, we may go a couple times a month. They have a little daycare area for toddlers that can't sit through a sermon.
In the afternoon, we will be going over to Lynn Snowe"s house for bbq and poolside. She has a nice inground pool. abby loves to jump off the diving board. I have Zach swimming too. He has one of those flotation swimming trunks, one piece. He swims like a fish. he is going to be a water baby!!! Not afraid to go under water, he holds his breath well. Spits out water if it gets in.....Better swimmer than me. haha.
Monday is the big day. I have labs drawn at 8:40, see Dr. Sinclair at 9:00 and start chemo at 9:30. I need to eat more carbs and less protein the day before, or I have read that you get more sick. I will try it.
These are a few pictures I took last week. I will let everyone know how I am feeling on Monday.
Love you all
Jennifer
I am quite nervous about how the chemotherapy is going to affect me. I am going to meditate and call on my archangels, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael and Uriel to help protect me and also my guardian angel, Meredith. I am going to call all these angels to stand by me during my therapy. they will help protect me and hopefully help decrease the side effects of chemo.
I am continuing Reiki. This is a nice meditation and relaxation exercise. I love my Reiki practitioner. I am learning lots from her. Hopefully, I will be able to become Reiki 2 and practice it on my family. It is really relaxing. Meditation. I see beautiful colors while I am relaxed. Pink and Purple. These are healing colors. I were my rose quartz everyday. I will be adding some amethyst as well to my healing necklace. Amethyst is a healing stone, it carries vibrations. Rose quartz is a love stone. It also contains vibrations for the owner.
Tomorrow, I will be going to church for the first time in about 10 yrs. My family and I will be going to Deeper Life Assembly in Pittsfield. Mathew Bagley is the pastor, (no relation). If we like it, we may go a couple times a month. They have a little daycare area for toddlers that can't sit through a sermon.
In the afternoon, we will be going over to Lynn Snowe"s house for bbq and poolside. She has a nice inground pool. abby loves to jump off the diving board. I have Zach swimming too. He has one of those flotation swimming trunks, one piece. He swims like a fish. he is going to be a water baby!!! Not afraid to go under water, he holds his breath well. Spits out water if it gets in.....Better swimmer than me. haha.
Monday is the big day. I have labs drawn at 8:40, see Dr. Sinclair at 9:00 and start chemo at 9:30. I need to eat more carbs and less protein the day before, or I have read that you get more sick. I will try it.
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| Rose Quartz Rough Stone |
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| Amethyst Stone |
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| Flowers from my Healing Garden |
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| Abby Swimming in Our Pool |
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| Abby under water |
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| Mr Frog in my Healing Garden! |
Love you all
Jennifer
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