As you all know, Hannah had her first chemo treatment yesterday. We were under the impression that it would take a few days, if at all that she would get ill. Well… She was up most of the night sick to her stomach. Mom tried giving her some anti-nausea medication, but that doesn’t help if you can’t keep anything down. We called the doctor to ask if it was normal for her to get so sick so fast. And they said everybody reacts differently. Hannah slept most of the day, ate a little soup and kept that down. When dad got home from work she said she wanted a grilled cheese sammich and a steak. So she got…. a grilled cheese sammich and a steak (I’m not gonna argue with her). She only ate about a third of it and she kept it down. She seems to be feeling better now, just tired.
Did anybody ever have weird dreams while on chemo? She’s coming up with some off the wall stuff. Anyways… We are hoping that she got sick so early maybe it won’t last as long. It is probably wishful thinking though. We will see how she is in the next few days. I am going to keep it short because we are spent and need to go to bed.
Good night
Today was Hannah’s first chemo treatment. We could tell that she was a little nervous even though she didn’t want us to see it. She wasn’t concerned about the chemo itself. She was scared that it would hurt when they inserted the needle into her port. Even though mom put some numbing cream on it Hannah insited she could still feel it. So the nurse globbed some more cream on her and covered it with saran wrap. Hannah had to wait about two hours until she actually got the treatment. The nurses flushed her port and ran saline through it for about an hour. It was very uneventful, we just sat in the room and watched movies. The next treatment will be in a few weeks and she would have lost her hair by then so we are throwing her a hat party where everybody that comes has to bring a hat for Hannah. During the party we are going to shave her head before it starts falling out. That way it is her choice to lose her hair, not the chemo. We are hoping all of the “anti drugs” will alleviate the side affects. But we won’t know that for the next few days to a week. We will keep you updated and hopefully more often.
Well, today was a long day. Took a trip to UCLA and met with two doctors (one that was HIGHLY recommended), Both by friends and people from various forums. It appears that a mastectomy is inevitable. According to the doctors the, remainder of the tumor is too close to the nipple to salvage it, or much of the breast tissue for that matter. We had not told Hannah exactly what a mastectomy was until today, with the help of the doctors of course. We feared that she would probablly be very upset… But she was like “let’s do this, I need to get healthy”. This was a total shock to us, we thought for sure she would cry or scream at us or something. But no, she seems to understand everything. Even the doctor stopped and asked her if she was ok. We explained that she will loser her hair with chemotherapy and she barely flinched (she wants a new hair style anyways). I think this goes to show that children do understand alot more than we as parents think, they just don’t always listen. so, needless to say it was a huge relief for us as we do not like keeping anything from her.
Tomorrow the three of us will be going yet to another surgeon (actually two) to see if they have anything different to say. As of right now we are leaning towards UCLA as we have been most impressed with the staff there.
That’s all for now. thank you all!
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May 27, 2009 9:55 pm | 
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