Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am not lying to you. After four cycles of AC chemotherapy (it takes its name from the initials of these drugs: doxorubicin (also known as Adriamycin) cyclophosphamide), that’s almost 12 weeks of treatment my 4cm grade 3 tumour has gathered it’s...
Aug 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Slowly coming back to life. Week 3 of the cycle is by far the best for me. I feel I am over the worse, with some energy levels back – you get this then the confidence levels grow. You feel effective and worthwhile and know when you wake up each morning there is...
Aug 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Took a phone call from an Oncologist Nurse. They are trialing a new scheme to check in with patients and carry out assessments of ‘the story so far’. There is a ‘story so far’, and she has phoned me to listen to mine. So she gets it. A succinct...
Aug 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Rough as today. Really dipped down and feeling unwell. A week on too? I was doing so well then today – WOW. I am sore, sickly, hot, cold, fed up, tired. Is the accumulative factor? Four in and now it starts to settle and hurt? I hate that word –...
Aug 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’d like a day where I don’t think about chemo and it’s work. What would I think about? It feels like it has always been in my life when actually it hasn’t. I am only 13 weeks into this chapter of my life but it seems like 13 years. I am left...
Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
I swear I did not sleep one full hour last night. It took three hours to actually fall asleep. Meditation and Zopiclone didn’t touch me. I read and finished my book, willing my body to close itself off and rest. I hate nights like these. You watch the clock and...
