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On Saturday September 26th, the effects of my first Chemo treatment hit me like a ton of bricks. Words can not describe on how sick I was feeling. The vomiting and diarrhea was like NOTHING  I have EVER experienced. Your body is so weak, your bones ache, you have no desire to eat, drink, or talk. You know you have to eat, but it takes energy to eat, and you just do not have an ounce of energy to spare. I have a new appreciation to all the patients that have passed my path in my Mammography career, they are true survivors, I too will soon be a survivor!

On Monday morning (Sept. 28), my primary doctor took the dressing off of my Portacath. She reached out to my Medical Oncologist to discuss medications to ease the effects. The medications made a huge difference, but I still felt awful. I don’t know what I was thinking when I thought I could go into work on Tuesday!…….I only lasted three hours!!! On Wednesday, my day was going to be split between our Triangle Square clinic (11 miles away) and our Kihei clinic  (.2 miles away) from my home. Was fortunate that MDI was okay with me only working the afternoon in Kihei. I worked on result letters, waited for the Hologic service engineer as our power supply on the unit was going to be replaced. The part was scheduled to arrive on Thursday, so he bypassed the issue so I can do the QC and patients till Thursday. Because of this issue patients were taken off the schedule, I only had two patients to do, even then, when I was done, I was so exhausted. Lee, the front desk receptionist was super helpful. She was going out of her way to help me in any way possible……………….truly blessed to have amazing staff at MDI!

With the new month being October, it brings us the annual “Breast Cancer Awareness” month. The picture above is made from only some of the t-shirts I have accumulated from doing Breast Cancer walks. If there is a walk near you, please consider participating.