Ashe Kills Cancer

Tag: Medication

  • Chemotherapy: Round 1, Day 13

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    It’s been 10 days since my previous update, so it seemed like a good time for another. I’m mostly feeling okay today and have been for a few days. But it was rough going there for a bit. Side Effects For the first week or so, I had a bunch of side effects. I felt…

  • Chemotherapy: Round 1, Day 3

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    Chemo steroids are keeping me awake in the middle of the night, so what the hell? Let’s try to write an update. 😆 I have my OmmWriter music on in the background via YouTube Music. Anyone familiar with OmmWriter? It’s a distraction-free writing program I used a bunch back in the day. Steroids Anyway, yes.…

  • Education Session, Chemo Haul, Port Placement Surgery and Impending Chemotherapy

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    I feel like I’m so behind on my updates! Let me catch you up on everything. The Education Session Our chemo education session was on Friday, November 1. It was initially scheduled as an in-person appointment with the oncologist’s nurse practitioner (NP), but she was at home with COVID, so the office called me to…

  • Updated Appointment Schedule (Including First Chemo Session)

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    Happy Halloween and Merry Samhain, loves! 🎃 Instead of partaking in festivities, I’m researching what kind of stuff I’ll need to have for chemotherapy and starting to search for those things on Amazon to put in my cart. I’ll probably end up with quite the chemo haul. 😆 I scheduled my port placement surgery and…

  • Chemo is Officially Official

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    I mean, that’s basically the TLDR. Chemo is officially official. We saw my medical oncologist for the first time today. Three weeks to the day since surgery. It had to be three weeks because that’s how long the results of the Oncotype test would take. I forgot about that test, actually, but I awoke to…

  • HER2 Status, Surgical Follow-Up and Heart Rate Update

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    The biggest news of the day is perhaps that the results of the reevaluation of my HER2 status (the HER2 FISH test) came in today and nothing has changed! I’m still considered HER2 negative, which is a relief. Also today I had a follow-up appointment with my surgeon. She says I’m healing well! I do…

  • Pre-Op and My Cancer T-Shirt

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    We had my pre-op appointment this afternoon. The appointment was with my primary care provider’s nurse practitioner. I’d never met her before but she was very nice, as was her assistant. She asked me some medical history questions, performed a physical exam, did an EKG and ordered a metabolic panel, which I was able to…

  • Cancer Conflicts With My Medication

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    I’m not sure if “cancer changes everything” is a thing people say, but if it’s not, it should be. Because it does. Any serious and/or debilitating illness changes everything. I’ve seen it with ME/CFS, POTS and now cancer. So far cancer has been the most disruptive, but not the most debilitating. We’ll see how things…