Friday, June 21st I went in for my third treatment. This was the first with my new meds. I am now taking Taxol and Herceptin. I will be getting the Taxol every week for 6 weeks and the Herceptin still every 3 weeks for several more months. I was told that I should tolerate this new chemo much better. In fact, my doctor said that he gives this drug to 80 y.o. women. He said "so if you don't tolerate this, we need to double check your age". Because they are giving it to me in a low-dose, I do not need all the pre-meds and anti-nausea drugs that went along with the other chemo. Therefore, I was only in the office for 4 hours. I felt fine all day Saturday, but was extremely tired all day Sunday. In fact, I slept more than I was awake on Sunday. Today, Monday, I am still feeling fine... a little tired, but no other side effects at all!! Looks like this will work out much better!
On a side note: My grandparents had come up from FL to see me and attend my chemo appt. with me. My mom and grandma went with me to the appt. While in the waiting room, we were informed that I am only allowed to have one visitor in the treatment room with me now (originally I was told two). So my mom had to wait in the waiting room the whole time! Argh!
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