I plan to try and go to Living Well on Thursday...they seem to have a Welcome session planned...then they can tell me all the good stuff. I also want to check out the American Cancer Society in Batavia....nurse at the treatment part of LaGrange office faxed them info about me and I'm to expect a call. She says they have a looking your best program where they give away makeup and cosmetics, wigs and scarves...freebies. Can't beat that.
My poison is called R-CHOP. Rituximab (the big bag), Cyclophosphamide (small bag), Vincristine sulfate (nurse does quick injection), and Doxorubicin (also a quickie injection). That's during a session. Then there's all the pills I take at home at different times of the day....trying to get used to the schedule now.
History: I think my problems actually started a year ago, that's when my hip pain started (where the bulk of the swollen, cancerous lymph nodes are now). I told my doc at my annual check up in November 2008, and she ordered a bone density test....she assumed thinning bones, some osteoporosis, I was premenopausal...factors other than cancer.
But I truly believe that was the start. Then I had the gallbladder problem and my period stopped in May...but things just weren't getting better (back pain, cramping, stomach seeming to take it's time adjusting to the bile dump without the gallbladder). I attributed all the woes to these other problems of adjustment and change of life. It was a change alright and the delay gave the disease a chance to spread north.
In June I started getting stunning pain in my right shoulder area when I moved it in certain directions.....I thought it was from handling books (swiping them in repeat action over the bar code reader at the library....like a carpal tunnel of the shoulder)....not realizing the lymph nodes were affected there.
It's been a rough year to say the least.
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