Gratitude

Side effect free day. Messages of support and love from close friends knit be together even more. I’m feeling well. Well. Closer to well than of recent days. I can’t write ‘tip-top’ because I am not. But I feel a damn sight better than...

Breathless – nerve pain – joint pain

I have a rattle in my chest and feel its bellow when I breathe in and out. I noticed it after I’d walked from my bedroom to my kitchen to put washing away. My ribs feel like someone is playing a xylophone on them, and that someone is blindfolded. There’s a...

Self blame

I have never felt this good after chemo. Maybe close but honestly this is great. I do feel slightly odd but can’t really expand on that. But odd is better than sickly or worse. I do feel a little tired but I think that is coming more form my mind than my body. I...

Chemo#5 = 5 hours

Early morning followed an early night. Checked body for signs and clues to how I was feeling about approaching today. Yeah OK. Nor great. But OK. I can do this I tell myself – yes it is uncertain (you would think I’d be used to that by now), but yes I have...

Weekend #3’s

You may be coming familiar with the excitement I feel when it is the last weekend before chemo. This is the weekend I am close to me and close to feeling like I can enjoy what makes me happy in life. I have hope on these few days, as I know I am going to feel Ok and I...