This phrase is used a lot in the Bible and it is a great comfort. Things don’t come to stay, they come to pass! After 4 days of misery following the last lot of chemo, things have improved greatly. My energy levels have quickly returned and I’ve managed to avoid the viral infection Bronwen has [...]
I’m still feeling very blessed. Though it is taking me longer to recover from the chemo I am coming right energy-wise within a week. I seem to get quite a bit of bleeding for 3 days following chemo and then it settles down. No-one seems to be sure where it is coming from but from [...]
Chemo went OK on Wednesday and Thursday started well. Then things started to go downhill. I think the cumulative effect of months of chemo is taking its toll and Friday and Saturday became very blah days. I spent most of the time lying down not even feeling up to reading, cooking or eating much. At [...]
Yesterday I had the seventh in my present course of Chemotherapy. One to go – hopefully in three weeks if I don’t contract any more colds or bugs. The session lasted from 1pm to 4pm and the only trouble with afternoon treatments is that amongst the concoctions pumped into you is Dexamethazone which is an [...]
Today I have the 7th round of chemo in the present course. This is the one postponed from last week when I had not recovered from a chest infection. I’m feeling lots better today. If I manage to stay free of further colds and chest infections, I should have the last scheduled chemo at the [...]
Whenever I receive chemo the immediate side-effects are minimal and I manage to live a fairly normal week afterwards, but the cumulative effect is building. It is taking longer for the platelets to return to normal and I seem to be consistently anaemic. This means that once again my normal round is delayed a week [...]
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