So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[jjthink]

Drat, I think you may have had a reaction to the contrast dye. So sorryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

JJ

 

[maplesky7]

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warm or pert near hot! 2x for me so far with my heart.

 

[bwebb7]

Oh Lunachick,
I just noticed you are from Brick. I spent many spring and summer vacations there. My mom's sister lived there and she was always taking a couple of us kids to help out my mom. I still have allot of family there-it is a beautiful place.
My beautiful red-headed Irish cousin Mary lives there and is going through allot of the same things. She has had chemo and been in remission and sadly is back to chemo treatments again
She too has always been recognized by her beautiful red hair and smile! Her smile is always there and her beautiful hair came back too.
I visited her in October and she looked wonderful-shortly after our visit she got the news that it was back. I know she will win this battle!
I wish you the very best and will be praying for you. I know you will beat this thing!
God Bless and take care,
Bridget

 

[maplesky7]

and yeah Luna... really does sound like a reaction... I react just like that sometimes to some things... it's an awful feeling.... and MOST definitely tell your dr. that should be noted and they can change to something else probably that won't do that.

 

[verthandi]

Okay Luna, it may be a Holiday, but I want to know that you are feeling better today.

I hope at least the bunny brought you some chocolate.

 

[Lunachick]

Hi.

I don't know what happened.....I had some kind of reaction or something. But I slept real well last night until 9:00 am this morning. I had this IV contrast before, I love seafood and am not allergic to anything so far as I know. They all asked the same questions before they do a procedure like that. Are you allergic, have you had this done before, what happened that you are here? etc etc.

For some reason that night I had a reaction of some sort. Anyway, that was then, we're OK now.

I think I'm just nervous or something.......now I'm waiting for the CT scan info to get to the Dr. and I'll be waiting for that call to come in and go over that. Of course, in my mind, every ache or twitch I feel, I'm thinking, oh no, it spread to my hips, or my intestines, or somewhere else! This isn't fun. And I've been losing weight, not a whole lot, but that makes me think of the worst too. I know it's the anxiety diet that I'm on, plus I really don't have an appetite lately. When I see her this week is when she'll give me the meds I MIGHT need for the chemo side effects I suppose. I'll be asking more details on what I should be expecting to feel like and all. What she said the last time I saw her was that I'll lose my hair, and I'll feel achy all over like I got the flu. So, OK I've felt that before, what else? Come on give it to me straight please. I can be a real PIA.

I'm sure the nurses there on the day of chemo treatment will be taking care of who is going to be there and I suppose they will be giving me a little more info too. OR they don't say anything to you and you just get hooked up and go along with it.

What do I expect? I don't know! I want to know what to expect during this stuff, so I'm ready for it. I don't like NOT KNOWING. It's the worst feeling, and most people just say: It's different for each person; some have these symptoms; some don't; they have meds for this and that. etc.. This is not working for me, I need some kind of answers and I'm not finding them.

Told you I as a PIA.

 

[Lunachick]

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Bridget, what kind of cancer does she have? I'm so sorry it came back......dang. Where abouts in Brick?

 

[Lunachick]

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warm or pert near hot! 2x for me so far with my heart.

OH yeah, I got that warm/hot feeling surging through my system. The nurse there said "you'll feel a warm flush, and maybe feel like you wet yourself, but you won't, it's just feels that way. Yep, she warned me ahead of time, I appreciated that. I thanked her, and she gave my arm a gentle squeeze.

 

[3goodeggs]

no, You are not a PIA. You are concerned.
They would hook my mom up, she'd sit by her buddies tell me to pick her up at such and such a time, I'd get back there and they'd be laughing and snickering. The unknown is always scary. It is okay to be scared. But instead of visualizing cancer eating you alive, visualize your immune system eating it alive. Practice scanning your body in your mind and getting your cells to search and destroy the enemy. Use your mind to empower your body. What you are doing now is stressing you. You must eat what you can. eat healthy and give your body what it needs to fight!
GO LUNA! we are all rooting for you!

 

[verthandi]

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warm or pert near hot! 2x for me so far with my heart.

OH yeah, I got that warm/hot feeling surging through my system. The nurse there said "you'll feel a warm flush, and maybe feel like you wet yourself, but you won't, it's just feels that way. Yep, she warned me ahead of time, I appreciated that. I thanked her, and she gave my arm a gentle squeeze.

I told them after having hot flashes that feeling was nothing and the tech. laughed. Luna you sound like me, I have to know all the details and it drives my doctor nuts. I can deal with knowing, it's the not knowing that makes me crazy. I have found that once the medical staff understands that is how I think and process things that they are more forth coming with me. A lot of patients don't want to know what might happen, but if I know ahead of time, I don't panic if it does happen to me. And I also don't obsess about all the things that might happen.