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Baby - You are young and strong, but most of all you have the right attitude. You will be a good fighter. Did you know that the medical community is questioning taking out all those lymph nodes now?
I think what they're doing is "just in case chemo" to cover any situation where it might develop over time. What are you going to do? It's hard to say to youself - gee, I think I'll take my chances and not do chemo....and "chemo" is such a scary word. I still have many questions over this cancer stuff.....
You ARE blessed by the people that support you. I found that out too, right here!
Congrats on your clean scan.
Taking those extra vitamins would certainly help, I found that taking extra B-12 sublinguals 2500 mcg every day prevented me from having any neuropathy symptoms....and I still take them because I never know if that chemo crap messed me up where I SHOULD take those B-12s forever...small price to pay. I also do vitamin D-3 for my bones and any hormonal mishaps that may occur. Besides the regular gummy chew vites I enjoy and a heavy chew tab of vitamin C.
AND I always, always eat good food and lots of greens. You do the best you can and be happy about it. If I croak no matter what, I croak. But I DID do my best.
I also have to take B-12 shot monthly ,because the colon section that was removed.
Luna ,the chemo I took is the same as Baby is taken.....its not near as bad as what you had....didn't lose all the hair, just thinned a little, think its best to take it.
I struggled with that too. I was going back and forth. My grandma had colon cancer and it was in the lymph nodes and she decided not to do chemo because she was old. That was 12 years ago, it never came back. So it was hard and still is hard to poison my body "just in case" BUT my first day at chemo, my mom and I were sitting there talking to some other people and met this guy. Mind you this is a HUGE chemo place with all kinds of cancer, but we happen to be sitting next to him. We asked what kind of cancer. He had COLON CANCER, AND after the surgery, he did not come to appointments like he was supposed to and now it had spread to his liver and lungs. He sat there and said how he wished he would have done his chemo then.
Well that was my sign! I have peace now about it. My problem is I know God can heal me with or with out it, but I feel like this is a mission. People can see the Light through me and my attitude through chemo. Maybe I can encourage someone else.
This last year was the most stressful time for me as far as the world might think. We adopted two girls from Russia (while we were there on the first trip they had the subway bombing, a half mile from our hotel
, then we came back after court for the 10 day wait period and it was when that women sent her son on the plane alone back to Russia. So they "closed" adoptions, but thankfully it did not effect ours, then when I went back on the second trip, they had the volcano eruption and I was stuck in Russia with a 10 and 12 year old that was acting out!!!
) So I come back, and then started having my symptoms (thought it was a parasite from Russia). That was April. In July got the diagnosis. We moved in with my parents for the help, loosing our house, got it broke into 3 times and lost most of our furniture and appliances etc (MY husband was trying to take care of me and the kids and could not go over there often to try and move our stuff to storage!). I also changed midwives I work with, decided with cancer, I did not need to take abuse any more, it was not worth it. Now I am working with a midwife that respects me and treats me human! (I have 10 births left and then I can be a midwife)
With all that, I can say this has been the best, most peaceful, happiest year of my life and I would not change ANY of it. I am closer to God, I have more faith, trust, peace. I appreciate my family and this earth and life in general. My eyes have been opened and I do not want to ever close them again!
This has been my verse I hold to through this. (Actually all of Psalm 71 is great for comfort and strength)
Psalm 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
Baby - You are young and strong, but most of all you have the right attitude. You will be a good fighter. Did you know that the medical community is questioning taking out all those lymph nodes now?
You ARE blessed by the people that support you. I found that out too, right here!
Taking those extra vitamins would certainly help, I found that taking extra B-12 sublinguals 2500 mcg every day prevented me from having any neuropathy symptoms....and I still take them because I never know if that chemo crap messed me up where I SHOULD take those B-12s forever...small price to pay. I also do vitamin D-3 for my bones and any hormonal mishaps that may occur. Besides the regular gummy chew vites I enjoy and a heavy chew tab of vitamin C.
AND I always, always eat good food and lots of greens. You do the best you can and be happy about it. If I croak no matter what, I croak. But I DID do my best.
I also have to take B-12 shot monthly ,because the colon section that was removed.
Luna ,the chemo I took is the same as Baby is taken.....its not near as bad as what you had....didn't lose all the hair, just thinned a little, think its best to take it.
I struggled with that too. I was going back and forth. My grandma had colon cancer and it was in the lymph nodes and she decided not to do chemo because she was old. That was 12 years ago, it never came back. So it was hard and still is hard to poison my body "just in case" BUT my first day at chemo, my mom and I were sitting there talking to some other people and met this guy. Mind you this is a HUGE chemo place with all kinds of cancer, but we happen to be sitting next to him. We asked what kind of cancer. He had COLON CANCER, AND after the surgery, he did not come to appointments like he was supposed to and now it had spread to his liver and lungs. He sat there and said how he wished he would have done his chemo then.
Well that was my sign! I have peace now about it. My problem is I know God can heal me with or with out it, but I feel like this is a mission. People can see the Light through me and my attitude through chemo. Maybe I can encourage someone else.
This last year was the most stressful time for me as far as the world might think. We adopted two girls from Russia (while we were there on the first trip they had the subway bombing, a half mile from our hotel
With all that, I can say this has been the best, most peaceful, happiest year of my life and I would not change ANY of it. I am closer to God, I have more faith, trust, peace. I appreciate my family and this earth and life in general. My eyes have been opened and I do not want to ever close them again!
This has been my verse I hold to through this. (Actually all of Psalm 71 is great for comfort and strength)
Psalm 71:3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
