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Getting ready for chemo

So tomorrow is my first chemo. I slept really good last night and got up early today and started cleaning. So far I have done laundry, cleaned the upstairs carpet, made 2 homemade chicken pot pies in case I'm not feeling good enough to feed my family tomorrow, cleaned the bathroom, and was referee for a bicker fight between Jeff and Megan. It helps to keep busy but there it is in the back of my mind....chemo...chemo...chemo..what an ugly word.

I am going on information overload right now. I have read everything I could get my hands on to prepare for this. I have so much stuff running through my mind. Drink plenty of water, get biotene mouth wash for mouth sores, make sure I take my pill before I go for chemo. I have to make sure I drink lots of water, I'm not much of a water drinker, so I made some green iced tea. It is really good, although now I am peeing a wierd light green. I have already peed blue. That was when I had my sentinal node biopsy. They give you blue dye to locate the sentinal node. I peed blue for 2 days. I'm not talking a light blue! The first time it looked like tidy bowl and I was tepmted to get the toilet brush and scrub!

I guess I will go back to cleaning. Just want to make sure my house is in order.

 

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Anonymous said…
My thoughts are with you...............i hope that everything goes as well as it can
Hugs
Jayne
September 24, 2006 at 2:09 PM
Anonymous said…
It's Susie again from RNL.  My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.  TAKE THE PILL.  It can't hurt you.  :)

If there is anything I can do, please let me know or email me.

XO, Susie
September 24, 2006 at 7:24 PM
Anonymous said…
Thoughts and prayers are with you.....  Love, Ruth
September 24, 2006 at 10:06 PM
Anonymous said…
Good luck on your chemo.  Drinking water will be a wonderful habit to get into.  I started it on a diet years ago and haven't stopped!  (it's the only part of the diet that I stuck to LOL!)  You sound well prepared.  And it sounds like housecleaning is a stress reliever for you.  :-)

take care,
Stephanie
September 25, 2006 at 1:45 AM
Anonymous said…
Hoping today finds you much better than yesterday. My 1st Chemo treatment is today. I thought about you alot yestersday, but I know you have a great support team taking care of you and that we will both get through this and be able to say not only did we have breast cancer......we will be breast cancer survivors too!

September 26, 2006 at 6:21 AM
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