survived first chemo treatment

am relieved to say i survived the first week of chemo. now at least i know what to expect. had 2 very rough days and spent Saturday night on the toilet but am feeling tons better this week. i only had a quick infusion of this other drug herceptin y'day and the side effects for that are pretty minimal....

so here's the recap:

Thursday & friday were bad...they gave me a shot of neulasta the day after chemo which causes horrible bone pain. the found out y'day that while this shot is meant to build your bone marrow/ white blood cell count that in my case it was overworking. they were shooting for a count of 10,000. i ended up y'day w/ 26,000. i could barely walk....they are going to try and adjust that for next chemo....

the nausea wasn't too bad - it's more of a sour stomach although i did have a moment on Friday when i got a wave of nausea and put my head down on my desk and took a compezine and just waited for it to end.... finally caved in and sat my ass down on the sofa and didn't move and watched season 1 of madmen...made it tolerable..... have decided that Friday afternoons of chemo weeks i'll be showing movies or watching videos ....

i've been really good about getting to the gym and working out. they say that that is the best thing i can do for myself so i take 'em at their word.

this week i'm hoping to feel pretty good....am even incensed enough to want to write a letter to the ny times about the new recommendation to put mammograms off until the age of 50. if i'd followed that protocol, i would be dead by 50. bunch of idiots. i didn't see any mention in the article about making sure that before they made that recommendation that they would use tools such as genetic testing or family history for women to decide who was even in the high risk category. there was another article about how they have drugs now that could prevent bc from even forming but that they can't figure out who and how to give it to people.

late for pt ...you haven't heard the end of this one.