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| Met with Oncologist. Proposed treatment schedule:\n Chemo and Herceptin - six treatments starting June 14, every three weeks.\n Radiation - regime TBD, start approximately October\n Herceptin - Continue with Herceptin every three weeks for another eleven treatments\n Five years of Letrozole\n\n One of the supplemental treatments is an injection taken post-chemo each time. It boosts your white blood cell count to help you fight off other infections. The injections cost about $2000/ea. They will refer me to the ANSWERS program for coverage for these injections.\n\n Met with Pharmacist. I have no prescription meds, and I have no problem pausing most of my supplements during treatment. I want to continue taking Berberine. She said that she didn't really want me to take it, but if I really wanted to, I should inform the chemo people because it would probably affect the metabolization of one of my chemo drugs.\n Met with representatives from two different studies. Signed up for the studies:\n - How many calories are required by a person undergoing chemotherapy?\n - Look for relationship of a certain virus to breast cancer Facebook Post:\n This is a beautiful song, and a great message for myself today. I've been stressed out and spiraling a bit the last couple of days. I'm mostly ok with feeling crappy for a year(ish) but I'm terrified of the ten-years of feeling crappy program that they're probably going to recommend. \n Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel \"IZ\" Kamakawiwo?ole Facebook Post:\n I just got out of my oncology consultation. \n They’re going to give me six rounds of chemotherapy plus Herceptin (which is the drug which targets my aggressive cancer - the HER2+ thing). They’ll be three weeks apart, so it will go until the end of September. Then they want me to do some radiation and eleven rounds of Herceptin (without chemo), which would mean Brent and I would have to skip Mexico next winter. He said that I could quit the Herceptin early to go to Mexico - he said he thinks I will probably have had enough of it by the end of the year. Then they want me to do five years of the hormone blocker drug. It’s not the one that I’m really scared of (Tamoxifen), but I’ll have to look up the one he said. \n I’m going to wait until I’ve had my first round of chemo, and have gotten word as to whether I’m eligible for subsidization on a white blood cell booster injection that should help me get less sick during chemo before I decide if I have to drop out of volunteering at The Fringe in August. The injections cost $2000/each, though. Brent says he’ll pay for them if I can’t get subsidization but I don’t know… I hope i can get the subsidization. \n I have to go to ‘chemo class’ next Tuesday then I have my first round of chemo and Herceptin next Friday. \n That’s it for now. I’ll keep you posted.
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