Deb dear,
It sounds as though things are progressing as you expected, but it still doesn't minimize the fact that it actually happened. I am sending you a big hug. I bet your wigs will look better on you than anyone since your have that special talent to make your hair always look fantastic. I hope you have one that looks like your hair when we had lunch - it was so perfect. I am anxious to find out if your head is cold and how you are coping with that if it does. You will be such a help to the Hats girls by telling us what else we need to do to make cancer patients more comfortable with the turbins, kerchiefs and hats we sew, knit and crochet.
I am so saddened to know your port has been painful and want to make it all go away. Did you 7 hours of chemo also take a toll on you? I have had other friends go through this and did not realize the procedure took so long, If you need some company the next time you go please let me know and I'll come if humanly possible. We are still on our little west coast vacation, will be back on the 23rd and then leave for a week in Houston on the 28th. We really need to see our daughter and her family after they went through hurricane Ike. After that we should be home most of the time.
The cost of your new drug is shocking, but if it makes you all better it is priceless - just like you. What I loved reading most is that you have had a breakthrough with your oncologist, Dr. Braich I believe? I simply could not even think about going through cancer and chemo with someone who was distant. Do not ever be hard on yourself for having really, really bad days. From what I've been told it comes with the territory. You do not have to be the poster woman for cancer every day and those of us who have no clue need to know that this is NOT an all-positive experience. Your greatest contribution to me is telling it like it is. I have had a CA 125 blood test before, but I am asking for one again. I'm reading Suzanne Sommers newest book, Breakthrough, and it is just mesmerizing. I will loan it to you after I'm through with it if you'd like to read it. I am making a list as long as a child's for Santa to ask my doctor about.
Keep up the fight girlfriend - hundrends of us are standing by you and our prayers do not stop. Tell us what you need or how we can help.
Love, Candace