Stage 3 Triple Negative Breast Cancer

I’m in for ac~t 4 times every 2 weeks then every week for 12. Bilateral mastectomy 1st… now chemo starts. It’s a heavy dose that increases odds of no recurrence.
I’m bringing a little rolling cooler with my own ice and plastic bags and cutting my hair off the day before. My friend showed me a head wrap that’s easy to make for a bald head…. And dangly earrings.
Gotta look good when I’m throwing ….

One of the things I did was carry a book with me to all appointments and treatments and I documented everything. I also used this book to write questions for all dr appointments and to be able to document all answers. Any major appointments I took someone else with so there was a second set of ears for what was being said. I used the book to write any questions I might from my research. For me it also helped me focus on what was said opposed to what the answers meant for me.

@kevachanel38 I feel you are so right that people who have not experienced this don’t understand what you are going through. I have been greatly served by an oncology social worker provided at my treatment hospital. We have telehealth visits every 10 days. She has helped me understand that all of my feelings and fears are “normal” given a cancer diagnosis. And this platform, as well as Gilda’s club, has been extraordinarily supportive and helpful.

I have come to my own way of seeing that there is no “going back” to where I was before a cancer diagnosis. But there is forward.