Round 9 Week 1 Day 1

~ Debra Mesecke

Well I’d like to say only 5 more rounds till my cruise but there’s a slight alteration, more in that later.

First and foremost the important stuff, my amazing weekend. Starting with a pampered pedicure and nail refill directly from work Friday night, while enjoying a wine & an expresso Martini. Unfortunately did not enjoy them later that night with wretched heartburn. At least this effect is forcing me to drink less and eat better. Thoroughly exhausted from 4 days at work and a night out I had a sleep in Saturday before an amazing group of friends arrived for fun in the sun our way. Joined by friends my husband went to school with and their families with whipper snappers aged from 4 to 17! We started drinking then eating then swimming then Singstar! Rounded out the weekend on Sunday with a trip to Belair a small hit of tennis and a lovely time with the footy families O’Reilly’s, Schuster’s & Barry & Finn. Completed with a dip in the pool spa at home.

After chemo and Herceptin today, I’m off to cross the road and watch my Bute neices in SAPSASA tennis.

Now for the boring stuff….Vy told me today I have a Herceptin treatment (no chemo) on New Year’s Eve…..which I hadn’t realised, but my toxic chemo definitely finishes in 5 more weeks (Xmas Eve).

My calcium levels have reverted back to normal once again on their own. Yay, getting less and less scanxiety (thanks for that new term Tash) for Wednesday now.

HB 101 (same as last week). Due to my itching and finger numbness, Vy has reduced my Paclataxel dose slightly, no effect on cancer outcome she assures me.

Feeling very confident today, excited about our cruise – 56 days to go! And just looking forward to finishing the chemo and feeling more like myself again, very soon.

Happy days xx

Published by Debra Mesecke

I was 21 and I was planning a wedding, buying a house and had a job interview for the job of my dreams on my 22nd birthday.  You see I was being made redundant and had to find a new job by August.  Especially with the new mortgage now.  It was April.  I worked for CML and my new job was a done deal.  All I needed was a medical.  And with that, just like that....my life was turned upside down and I was diagnosed with CML, ha ha, I know the irony.  My hematologist had a laugh at that too.  I had Chronic Myeloid Leukeamia, which was normally reserved for 70 year old men.  Quite rare for a young adult to get, so how would they treat it?  I underwent two separate trials until finally it was decided my best chance of survival (all be it only 50% chance), would be a MUD BMT (matched unrelated bone marrow transplant), now known as VUD Allograt (volunteer unrelated donor).  I was told 21 years ago the chance of finding a match was 1 in 20,000 (and that is everyone was on the bone marrow donor registry).  Scary odds. So being the risk taker I am I said "go for it".  They found a match and that was my first miracle in this journey.  The second miracle was, it worked - new blood type, two different DNA profiles and the miracle of medicine was reborn inside me.  The third miracle is my son.  25 years on, I now face a new challenge.  Breast Cancer.  Certainly not the first person to have cancer, to have invasive ductile cancer, hormone receptive and HER2 +, or to even have a dual diagnosis.  But this is not another Webiste about a cancer survivor, this is just my excuse to finally publicly write.  Along the way I  am hoping I can share some insights I have learnt over the years and at the same time, give you a good belly laugh.

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