Round 3 all aboard the chemo train!

 January 13, 2012 I started chemotherapy for the third time.  This time I'm getting Abraxane, my oncologist assured me it was of the same family as I what I was getting before but a lot less harsh.  I didn't need steroids because the side effects were supposed to be milder! Yeah right! Once again I experienced nausea, vomiting for two days followed by an achy body for the next five days!  At my next visit I requested better anti-nausea medication but was told I had to work up to the good stuff...give me a break!

So here I sit, I had my second infusion of the abraxane and once again spent two days being nauseous followed by unbelieveable joint pain that had me popping tylenol 3's every four hours!  Turns out somewhere along the line I had caught the flu so it was hard to distinguish between chemo pain and flu pain...needless to say I was not a happy camper!! I still continue with the aches and pains and now I just have a runny nose and cough! Btw my last ct scan said that I was stable with no new tumours in my lungs or lymph nodes and the tumours in my liver in one quandrant they can't even see them anymore and another place they continue to shrink. My goal is to be dancing with NED (no evidence of disease), I even bought the t-shirt for that day!!  So that's my story up until now I will continue to update as time goes on!