Round 1 Chemo date - 9.8.09

Today was good! Thank you all sooooo much for praying for me! I was just like rolling with it!!!!! I met with my oncologist and he seems to "think" that my shoulder is part of the cancer but not brittle b/c new bone is being made...He did not seem to be very worried about that and said we could just get that with radiation...ok.... So I must say I was a bit anxious about all this...went in ...met with the Dr and it was a good meeting ...he did say "You will do fine " and I was like I pray I do better than fine!!!! So they gave me some benadryl - in case I was allergic to the Taxotere..they gave me some saline and they gave me some nausea drugs all through my port at the very beginning...oh, my in the beginning they tried to get the needle in the port and couldn't and I hadn't put on my Emla to numb it b/c I didn't know where to put it...but do you know that the nurse thought that she was just killing me and what she was doing hurt less than when you get your finger pricked - Praise God b/c I am not good with pain! Thank you so much for praying me through that!!!!! I received three different drugs today in my chemo cocktail - Docetaxel(Taxotere), Carboplatin(Paraplatin), and Herceptin. Not sure what all that means but if it does some cancer killing I'll take it! Tomorrow I have to go get a shot to help with my white blood count since what I took today lowers it! So this is how it works ...next 2 weeks I have to do Herceptin -once a week and then the week after another strong cocktail! Prayfully, I will be able to physically see the cancer shrinking!!!!! For those of you who understand stuff I am Estrogen, Progesterin AND Her2 Positive...that is a positive on all three...Also, those who don't understand in which I didn't ...I think this is right - I have breast cancer so the cancer in the other parts of my body is breast cancer and those cells will be treated that way - I hope you got that or you probably already know...so the same chemo to kill the breast cancer should attack the BC cells on the other organs!!! My nurse was wonderful...I did tell her that I have a bigger God who I am praying has planned for me to be completely healed!!!! Then the doc came in to check on me and my beloved had stepped out to get us lunch and I was reading the word and jamming to some praise music and he asked how I was doing " I just said I am doing whatever it takes and praying for healing!" And I said...If ya'll got anything else back there to kill this cancer...just bring it on! I don't think he gets me...but maybe b/c he was like I know you are just ready to get this show on the road!!!! We were about to watch some movies "I told him I had Madea goes to Jail and New Girl In Town - I asked if he wanted to stay and watch it with us - ha" He said "He wishes he could but really had to go...." hmmmm, I wonder....Oh well... So I have not felt nauseous at all, but they did say that as the treatments go on it could get worse...it is more of a build up. I am just a bit tired...I told Mike afterwards that I really should exercise some...so maybe we should stop off for some retail therapy! Oh my I haven't said enough thank yous to everyone for PRAYERS, verses of encouragement, words of encouragement, emails, texts,comments, for Frozen dinners that just keep appearing at my house, for diapers, baby formula, baby food and my son's and my husband's favorite cereals and candy, for the gift cards...I am not sure who everyone is b/c there are no names on there...but please know we are soooo thankful!!!!!! Just for EVERYTHING!!!!!!!! Can I just share something - well we decided we kind of needed to let Micah in on the idea a bit since I should be losing my hair in the next few weeks. We have been telling him we have been running errands these last 2 weeks. So yesterday Micah and I went out on the back porch and I said "Mommy is sick and I have to go to the doctor and my hair is going to fall out" and I pulled my hair back and said kind of like this...he says to me "Can we pick it up and put it back on?" I said " It's ok b/c we can go pick out a fun hat or scarf or something and you can help" He said "Ok". Later last night he said "Are you going to take meds and your hair is going to fall out...I don't think I like that? :(" No tears for either one of us...I am telling you in my weakness He(God) is strong...b/c I really thought that I was going to lose it! Then today he was already home from school when we got home and he says "Did your hair already grow back?" All excitedly?!?!?! I said " It's going to take some time" Please pray for my most precious one in this "stuff"! I love ya'll and thank ya'll soooo much, my precious brothers and sisters in Christ!!!! Cath