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Kimberly Pincus <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:00:18 -0400
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Kathy Dettwyler wrote:
>
> Hey guys! I'm back from my day in Temple with the onco-docs.  The day went
> well.  The plan is 4 rounds of chemotherapy, starting next Thursday (!), I
> go up to Temple for the day, it takes about 2 hours, through an IV line,
> then I go back 3 weeks later, and 3 weeks after that and then 3 weeks after
> that.  If it all happens according to schedule, my last chemo will be
> December 23rd.  Just in time for Christmas!  I will lose my hair -- that
> will be amusing.
>
> Three weeks after the last chemo, I start 5 or 6 weeks of radiation.  That's
> here in town, takes about 30 minutes for the whole thing, though I'll
> actually be getting zapped for only about 2 minutes each time.  Then I'm
> done.  The doctors were good sports about me saying I didn't want to do
> Tamoxifen, even though they think I'm not thinking logically about the
> risk/benefit ratio.
>
> I was offered a "free book" by the cancer social worker guy, who seemed
> surprised that I was not thrilled by the free book.  It's a book called
> "Living Beyond Breast Cancer" by a female MD whose mother had breast cancer.
> It was graciously supplied, free of charge, by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, the
> makers of Tamoxifen.  I made some comment about not liking to accept
> anything "free" from pharmaceutical manufacturers as the information might
> be tainted and he said "Oh no, they just provide the funds for us to buy the
> books, they don't influence what goes in them."  Right.  And I have some
> land for sale in Florida, cheap . . . .
>
> Kathy Dettwyler
>
> P.S.  Thanks to all who were thinking of me and praying for me today and who
> have sent notes via the list mothers!!  :)
>
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Hello,
I've been there too. Two years ago October I was diagnosed. You can beat
this thing too. Just remember to stay poitive there will be tough days
ahead. The hair thing isn't so bad once you get use to it. My kids
acually liked the feel of my head when it was bald , in time it grows
back, there are days I wish the hair was gone now, because i' don't have
time or patience to fix it.
You'll be in my thoughts and pryers.

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