Beautiful Thursday

[nightdog_barks]

Sunny, warm, birds singing. Watched a big blue jay take a splash-bath in the deck bird dish. Stripped the bed for new sheets, folded and put away some laundry. Finished Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy last night, really enjoyed it. Wonderfully researched, an exciting plot (with mysterious kidnappings, breakneck chases, and an evil lord) that carries you right along -- I'm actually surprised no one's made a movie of this yet, unless everyone who might do so thinks that the Sherlock Holmes juggernaut is simply too big. Oh well -- at least folks can enjoy reading this very entertaining book. A strong thumbs-up from me.

Took my first Arimidex (anastrozole) today. 1,824 to go. :-)

Comments

[damigella]

Glad to know the rads didn't make you feel too bad. Hadn't heard about Anastrozole, everyone I know in the business took Nolvadex (and no one had serious side effects, but maybe they were lucky).

Now see here, body, you are NOT going to act up with this treatment.

Yo go, girl! You and your awesome t-shirt!

[nightdog_barks]

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Nolvadex is tamoxifen, which is the first line of drug-defense for pre-menopausal women (in the U.S.). Anastrozole is a relatively recent development -- it became available as a generic only a couple of years ago, I believe.

[damigella]

Cool! My mom and the mom of my best friend got Tamoxifen post-menopause, but that was '95 and '97 respectively (and they're both healthy! w00t!) and my ex upstairs neighbor who's getting Tamoxifen now is pre-menopausal (and younger than me, yikes! Still, caught very early). Thanks for clarifying.

(pulls out calendar, tries to figure out how long still before menopause, curses)

[nightdog_barks]

From what I've read, the drugs do get switched around some -- some pre-menopausal women take tamoxifen for three years, then anastrozole for two. Or some post-menopausal women take anastrozole for three years, then tamoxifen for two. Or anastrozole, and then they switch to another aromatase inhibitor like anastrozole. It's very confusing. *g*