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kissjenn

I'm going to plead my case for chemo tomorrow. Hopefully they'll find somewhere that will let me start in about a fortnight, that's the usual to get it organised.

Really don't want to wait a month ... so onwards and upwards with assertiveness tomorrow.

beanielou

bast wrote: »

Enjoy your coffee with your friend.. hope the appointment goes well...x Sorry to hear about the pain... but yaahhhh to the positive vibes...xx

From me too xxx

kissjenn wrote: »

I'm going to plead my case for chemo tomorrow. Hopefully they'll find somewhere that will let me start in about a fortnight, that's the usual to get it organised.

Really don't want to wait a month ... so onwards and upwards with assertiveness tomorrow.

Here is hoping xxx

mooomin

kissjenn wrote: »

Really don't want to wait a month ... so onwards and upwards with assertiveness tomorrow.

Pretend they're eejit project-types at work, that should do it with assertiveness

taxi73

Good luck for today and loving your positiveness x

rising_from_the_ashes

Just catching up ... crashed really early last night

Hope it went well today .... and fingers crossed you can get your treatment at the Western & save the journey to BGH

kissjenn

Hi All.

Where do I start.

I was positive and assertive but my oncologist just wrings every good feeling out of me. Surgeon makes me want to beat it...must be a personality thing.

So positives...

She's agreed I can have chemo before surgery but shes not happy :mad:
She's agreed I can have a Hickman Line inserted so that's happening next week.
She's acknowledged that this new chemo will probably make me very sick so she's going to organise an anti-emetic pump which will drip feed drugs into my system.

Negatives...

Can't get a date because there are people with worse cancers than me waiting.
She wants me to have a mastectomy because that way they won't miss anything again.
She had no idea what I was talking about re the borders beds and dismissed it.

Feeling a bit down...she really deflates me.

taxi73

has she said what drugs is she giving you?
doesn't sound like she's sorted anything out for you though and don't know what the answer is to get it solved is

beanielou

Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Bah is all

kissjenn

Hi Taxi.

She's just signed the form to authorise it when I was there and I've signed the consent.

6 rounds of Carbplatin and Taxotere combined. Every 3 weeks.

I asked about weekly and I was told no. I'm too strong to qualify, it's more work for them and I'd be sick every week. Pointed out I;m sick every week regardless.

Allegedly they have 31 days from date of diagnosis to get me in. Diagnosis was 14/01 so really the max wait should be 3 weeks. They've warned me that they might simply phone me and tell me to come in two days later. I've been given pre-chemo steroids to take home and lorazepam to try and reduce the anxiety about the side-effects before they pump me full of the stuff.

Have you had this combo?

taxi73

no not had either of those chemos before
I had 6 x FEC first time around and had pacliataxel and Avastin this time
Breast cancer care is a good site to look at to see what S/E you may get but there again that may worry you more.
your onc sounds very unhelpful