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Racy, I have done them all my life and I still have a problem every now and then.......I do think it has something to do with aging.
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Second work day went well. Didn't need a nap at lunchtime or a lie-down when I finished :-). First day without any nausea meds too!
HUNGRY tonight so we went and did drive-thru and I had a McOz and fries - it was DIVINE!
Back to the actual office tomorrow. Will be a tiring day I'm sure...
Hope you are feeling better Kate, and hope everyone else's day went well.
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Yay Jenn! Back to being good. Did you take a note of the way it went? It will probably go that way each time but the fatigue will increase as you have more and more.
Good to hear you had a good day. My DH has gone to get us yummy roman pizza for our tea, can't wait till he gets back!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Jenn, good to hear your appetite is back. I had cravings at times and thought it best to satisfy them otherwise I couldn't stop thinking about what I was craving.
Again, this may be similar to a side effect of pregnancy but I wouldn't know about that LOL (no kids).
I usually try to eat healthily but sometimes during chemo you just can't either because your taste changes or you have no energy for preparing a complex meal.
Chrissy, pizza sounds good with a nice red from SA.0 -
Hi All
I'm definitly better today and I'm all set for tomorrow. I will take a sleeping pill tonight to give me a good nights rest.
Speaking of pregnancies. When I was pregnant with my daughter I never had morning sickness. I was expecting it and actually was welcoming it, because I just couldn't believe that after many IVF treatments I'd conceived.
Maybe I will also get lucky with chemo SE. Who knows. As the saying goes, I will hope for the best but expect the worst.
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Good luck tomorrow Kate!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Kate - hope you have already been taking Dexamethasone and that they will give you Emend and onadestron. Good luck tomorrow - why haven't you got a port yet?
Called DD and asked her to think about when she wants me down there after the baby is born. It's due 3rd June. I told her I think that the first few weeks should be to leave them alone to learn to cope with the new addition by themselves. I think it's important they bond with the baby in their own way and I'm hopeless when it comes to screaming babies anyway. SIL has large family down there and she seems to have many friends that have had babies, so I'm not sure I will be able to add much in the way of help. It's difficult to book a flight as we don't know when it's going to be born could be early or late.
I'm currently leaning towards later in the month of June if that's ok with you girls. Then it should have been born for sure.
Chrissy - did you appear on the scene to help with your grandbabies as soon as they were born? Not having been through this before, I'm really not sure what to do.
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Racy - sorry for the bad news regarding the hair - how long ago did you finish - I forget. How long is now?
I did have a reasonable wave before depending on how it was cut, but it wasn't curly by any means.
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Good luck Kate!!!!!!
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Sue, first grandchild? You will want to see him/her!
I am 8.5 months PFC.
Good luck tomorrow Kate.
I return from OS mid June so late June would be fine for me (onc appointment Monday 25th).0 -
Racy - no it's the second, but the first is our son's, and I hadn't even met the mother when he was born - we did go over to London when he was 4 months old - it's a little different when it's your daughter having a baby.
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Sue, when my first was born I was in the delivery room when the second was born, I was taking care of the first as they were brothers....lol.....but I took him in a few hours after the birth. My DD only lived around the corner and I got many a phone call saying HELP!.....lol. I was close by most of the time but only 'did' when asked or I could see she was struggling. No 1 was a good baby, ate and slept but not so No 2 he was a monster and I think for the first six months of his life he did nothing but cry. So I got a lot of hands on with him.........he quickly learned that crying made no difference to his gran, when it was time for bed, it was time for bed and he went to sleep. The other two I had very little to do with as DIL went to her own mum which was fine. I did get to see them and cuddle but the real hand on was the province of her mum. My relationship with them was built as they grew.
Gosh I'm waffling on....lol.....but I guess you can see that I adore my grands....lol
It's a hard decision to come early or not but I can tell you they do appreciate mum being close when they come home from hospital purely because they are unsure and having you in the house is a confidence booster. They do bond as that part I always left to my daughter I just did the other stuff, washing and cooking and cleaning up and sorting the older one while she was feeding. Mind you, there were times when babe got plonked in my lap because she needed to shower etc....lol
I don't know if I've helped or made it harder but that is just my view and what I did. My sister has done the same with both her grandchildren but there again, my Niece has had a caesar for both so the circumstances are a litte different................she has stayed for three weeks with each before returning home to the island.
Much food for thought.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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It is a lot to think about. Given that I now can't stand her husband, how could I even stay there. They won't have a spare bedroom unless they keep the baby in with them. No one helped me at all - it was horrible - we were all alone in Sydney. Maybe I could stay in town and just catch the bus or hire a car and only go there during the day.- that could let them get some sleep if they need it. She gave me such a hard time for 6 months - I kind of want revenge
They don't call me the B^&*h Mother From Hell for nothing - actually I named myself that I just remember when we had Steve's family come and stay when our son was only 6 weeks old and I hated it - extra cooking, worrying about disturbing them at night etc. I would have preferred to be on my own.
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Hi Suzie. I haven't been given any drugs whatsoever, and I spoke to them about a port and they said they would 'see how I go'. I know my veins misbehave, but they gave me a tip to drink lots of water to pump them up like a hose. I'm not much of a water drinker so I will get up at my usual time of around 5.30 and start guzzling.
Thanks everyone for you cheers.
PS is it true that they are all dressed up in protective gear when they give you the chemo?
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I think you might find that they will keep the baby in with them as all new parents they will be nervous about leaving it in a room on it's own. I didn't have help either as I lived in Melbourne and my family was here in Adelaide. But I think they were different times and we were a heap more mature than the kids today and we were taught to just get on with it.
What suburb do they live in?
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Kate, my nurses just had their uniform with a protective apron. If memory serves me correct, I think they also had a face mask but that was as much for our protection as theirs.
Big deep breaths, you can do this!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Yes Kate, the nursing staff wear gowns and gloves and masks. We only have to sit there once every few weeks - they have to handle the drugs everyday so they need the protection against the drugs (not from us :-)).
Have you got your ice for your mouth sorted? I sycked ice the whole way through and I'mmsure that's why I haven't lost my taste buds or had sores...
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The nurses wear gloves as well. There are also precautions that you will need to take to prevent others in your household being contaminated by the drugs. They will give you instructions. It's not too dramatic. Nurses or anyone else who does not need chemo should not be exposed to it.
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Ice? good idea. Should I take my own? or do they give it to you? Actually I won't leave anything to chance and will take a big container of crushed ice from my fridge. If it's not needed, I'll throw it on the garden when I get home.
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They can also give you frozen gloves to ice your nails.
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Good Luck tomorrow Kate. Take a book to read, oncology depts always run late from my experiences. Jenn glad your feeling better.
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Kate - take ice. My dept have NOTHING they offer you...
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Kate - I can't believe they didn't give you anything to start taking yesterday it's standard practice - hope it goes OK.
Chrissy - they live in Westbourne Park. They do plan on putting the baby in the spare room, which is currently a big mess where he teaches guitar. At first they may not, but I never had mine in our room.0 -
Jenn, how's the hair holding on? You may find that as it comes away from the scalp it gets matted in with the hair that is still attached. Best to comb it out with a wide tooth comb and bag it for disposal. It falls when it decides to. Pulling on it will not cause it to come out.
About the hair net I mentioned, I also wore it when washing in the shower, and to bed. I only combed a few times a day.
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Kate, you don't need the dexamethasone before FEC. It's generally taken prior to one of the taxols. You do get it with FEC and after it but nog before. Thinking of you
Trish
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Sue I wish I still lived in the city as you could have stayed with me. Westbourne Park is a new one on me....lol......I'll have to check out exactly where that is. I had mine in with me for the first three months as it was far easier that way and my DD did the same. I have found that things that are planned prior to birth are often discarded after as it turns out that the imagery and the reality are two very differnt things.
I was just thinking, if we organise this right, we could perhaps approach a Hotel and see if we can get a discount on rooms if we all stay at the same place............just a thought..........or even a cabin at the West Beach Van Park....we could share then...........oh my, my head is going out of control. The West Beach Van Park is really nice and very clean. I have friends that come down from Nth Queensland and always stay there because it's good and reasonably priced.
Late June is better for me as I am scheduled for knee replacement surgery on May 23rd so I'm assuming I will still be on crutches or hobbling with sticks at that time but no way....uh uh.....not on your nellie......am I going to miss meeting up with everyone!......lol
Kate, how did you go girl and how are you feeling? sure hope everything went smoothly for you.
Jenn, I can relate with the hair fall thing as I'm not doing chemo but my hair is falling out! Don't know why, it just is and I leave it everywhere! Glad you are back to feeling good!
Love n hugs all. Chrissy
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Westbourne Park is on Cross Road & Goodwood Roads - quite close to the city.
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Of course! I knew it sounded familiar....lol......I actually know that area pretty well as my Aunt used to live in Goodwood, just off Goodwood Road near the old Star theatre. Thanks for jogging my memory....lol
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How about Glenelg? Too cold maybe.
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Racy, Glenelg is very expensive! It has been over developed and is not as nice as it used to be.
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