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It was my 3rd round of chemo

It was my 3rd round of chemo. I have one to go with this Taxotere drug and one more round with steroids. The steroids are needed to cut down on the side effects and infections. I had to get up xtra early to be ready in the chair at the Infusion Center by 10. This was the first time I've had any kind of an appointment this early. It ended okay and had to sit in a somewhat uncomfortable recliner which must have been made for basketball players, for 2 hours. I felt so small in it. It was only about a couple of hours later after we got to my studio, (my second home away from home), I started having some serious leg pain along with brown urine. I often get some serious upper thigh/hip/groin and lower back pain which get me in tears because the pain is so overwhelming. I'm on 100mcg/hr Fentanyl Pain Patches which is supposedly cutting down on a lot of my pain. Sometimes I wonder but I don't think I want to know how bad things might be without it. The pain is a throbbing and

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