CHEMO is DONE!

March 14, 2011 was a landmark day! I went to Rexburg for what was to be my second-to-last Herceptin IV. I have done this every 3 weeks for a full year now! The happy news is I talked Dr. Dickson into having it be my LAST Herceptin IV instead. When you've been doing this for a full year - what the heck is 3 more weeks?! So he agreed and - YAY - I'm done! Here I am proudly holding up my graduation certificate! They also gave me a very giant syringe full of M&M's. That baby must have been made for horses! Almost scary looking. I have also included a pic of the two different graduation certificates I've now recieved. The first one when I finished Radiation Therapy last October, and now one for finishing Chemo.

I have been having a few frustrating side effects that we haven't been able to get rid of: Dizziness being the worst; still some numbness in my fingertips & toes, as well as very sore, bruised toenails that are still somewhat detached. We tried going off of the Tamoxifen for several weeks to see if that impoved things with the dizziness, but it didn't, so I've gone back on the Tamoxifen, and we're quitting the Herceptin. Maybe getting that out of my system will make a difference.

The toenails will take a while, they grow so slow. Here's a pic of my gross looking toenails. I know, who the heck wants to see gross toenails, but I'm just trying to make it real!

Now that my hair is a couple of inches long, I have included two "look - I have hair!" shots. It's coming in rather dark - mud seems to describe the color well. There's just a little bit of wave to it. I'd like that to stay forever, but I better not hold my breath!