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Chemotherapy week six: “your white blood cell count is getting low, it’s time for your white blood cell booster shots.” Neupogen® (filgrastim) is a drug that has been used successfully for cancer patients to stimulate the growth of the white blood cells, making patients less vulnerable to infections. -thanks google So, what does this mean for me?Continue reading “White blood cells”

Chemo number five was spent with my Dad. Another “coffee date” is what I started to call chemotherapy sessions. A place of positivity and healing. We sat, laughed, chatted away and boom soon enough chemo number five, done. Side effects noticed after week 5 were heart burn and continued constipation. Super fun. I noticed theContinue reading “Chemo #5”

The thought of losing all of my hair was worse than it actually was. I first noticed the hair loss while I was training another occupational therapist, Natalie. Since I do home health therapy, we were in my car and as we are sitting there talking about OT stuff…my hair started to tickle my neck,Continue reading “Hair loss”

As I chipped away at my chemotherapy sessions, I continue to work and workout. Keeping my life as normal as possible seemed to help. It was almost as if I was pretending that nothing was going on. I would work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and then have my chemotherapy on Thursdays, then back to work forContinue reading “Work, chemo, work”

After my rash begin to diminish they decided to go through with chemo #3, however no more immunotherapy for me. My mom and sister joined me for this chemo infusion. Since I could only have 2 visitors and my husband was there, they had to rotate and take turns. So my mom was there first.Continue reading “Chemo #3”

The evening of Christmas Day, as we were finishing up dinner and about to head home for the night… my feet started to itch. BAD. I took off my socks and began to notice a rash starting to form on my feet and lower legs. Maybe a heat rash? Not sure. Decided to head homeContinue reading “Emergency”

Alright, round 2. Let’s do this. Lab, doctor’s appointment and chemotherapy. My friend Morgan of over 10 years joined me and brought me a coffee. We chatted for a couple hours during my infusion, just like a good ol’ coffee date. Went by so fast and got to catch up! Side effects: no symptoms duringContinue reading “Chemotherapy #2”

Alright. Let’s get back to chemotherapy and the side effects that I began to notice after my first session. None. I felt like a science experiment. Ok, let’s inject all this poison and wait and see how you do! After the first chemotherapy I was fatigued after a long day of being at the doctor,Continue reading “Experiment”

In the midst of all this chaos, I received news that my genetic test results came back. At the time, I was so overwhelmed with getting through the egg retrieval and getting started with chemo I don’t think I realized how important these results actually were. I scheduled an appointment with a specialist at CCNWContinue reading “BRCA 1”

So all while the chemo treatments role on and the bills rack up, my amazing sister in law created a GoFundMe to support my husband and I with all these medical bills that were about to be rolling in. I was very against the idea of fundraising at all at the very start of this.Continue reading “Behind the scenes…”