7th October 2004
Hi guys - good to see you haven't let this thread fall apart. I love this one and look forward to your comments.
D-Gal - thanks for the compliment. I'm not really as strong as you think. Remember Baby from Dirty Dancing when Patrick Swayze told her how much he admired her because she's not afraid of anything? Her reply was "I'm afraid of everything". Well that's me. I'm afraid of everything, but I research and find out as much as I can and then the bad things are not a surprise. Furthermore, I can only worry about the things that I can change and go with the flow on things that I have no control over.
EMan - I had my first chemo last week and I must tell you there's really nothing to worry to about. I was a little tired the day of and the following day but I was given Zofran and Compazine to take for the 3 days following to head off any nausea and I must tell you that pregnancy was worse than the nausea I got from the chemo. I know you're a man and pregnancy is probably not a good analogy but you might have a personal experience nevertheless.
I had the 5-FU delivered over the course of 46 hours with a pump and I was even off to a karaoke party the night I had the pump. I didn't drink any alcohol but I had a blast nevertheless and never felt sick or tired. Aside from the fanny pack no one would ever have guessed that I was getting chemo. I hope your experience goes as smoothly.
Well as far as everything else goes I wish my other "stuff' was going as well as some of you others e.g. R-man. I had to push a bowling ball through the eye of a needle last night if you know what I mean because the anti-nausea medication had the side effect of constipation which my doctor and nurses obviously neglected to warn me about. I was told that diarrhea was one of the side effects and I was actually prepared to handle that but not the other one. So E-man be prepared. I know better next time.
Well guys - I'm at work so I'll sign off and go back to the what I'm actually getting paid to do
By ya'll
FTL
D-Gal - thanks for the compliment. I'm not really as strong as you think. Remember Baby from Dirty Dancing when Patrick Swayze told her how much he admired her because she's not afraid of anything? Her reply was "I'm afraid of everything". Well that's me. I'm afraid of everything, but I research and find out as much as I can and then the bad things are not a surprise. Furthermore, I can only worry about the things that I can change and go with the flow on things that I have no control over.
EMan - I had my first chemo last week and I must tell you there's really nothing to worry to about. I was a little tired the day of and the following day but I was given Zofran and Compazine to take for the 3 days following to head off any nausea and I must tell you that pregnancy was worse than the nausea I got from the chemo. I know you're a man and pregnancy is probably not a good analogy but you might have a personal experience nevertheless.
I had the 5-FU delivered over the course of 46 hours with a pump and I was even off to a karaoke party the night I had the pump. I didn't drink any alcohol but I had a blast nevertheless and never felt sick or tired. Aside from the fanny pack no one would ever have guessed that I was getting chemo. I hope your experience goes as smoothly.
Well as far as everything else goes I wish my other "stuff' was going as well as some of you others e.g. R-man. I had to push a bowling ball through the eye of a needle last night if you know what I mean because the anti-nausea medication had the side effect of constipation which my doctor and nurses obviously neglected to warn me about. I was told that diarrhea was one of the side effects and I was actually prepared to handle that but not the other one. So E-man be prepared. I know better next time.
Well guys - I'm at work so I'll sign off and go back to the what I'm actually getting paid to do
By ya'll
FTL