Wednesday 29 July. 3rd Chemo day. After this I will be half way through and this is the last of the FEC treatments. The chemo nurses say these are the worst ones and that the next three are not normally so bad. Hooray!
Today I drive myself as my partner has another engagement and I know I am OK afterwards. I get there at 10.00 thinking that things will be quicker this time….but they aren’t. The vampires in the path lab have trouble getting a vein to take the blood samples from and have to call for superior help. SO I end up with two plasters from that.
Then the chemo nurse finds the lovely vein we have used the last two times for the canula is not in good shape either. Apparently this is usual as the chemo damages the veins. Great. She eventually finds a deeper one elsewhere and we start the process.
They all like the wig. More fans!
It is all becoming so normal now. I have lunch, I read, I listen to my iPod and I do Sudoku. Eventually we finish and I get my anti sickness drugs. The only thing different is that I am given additional steroids, which I will have to start taking before the next chemo session as part of the protocol for the Taxotere drug. No Dr S this time as he is on holiday.
My head hair is very patchy now – more and more comes out each day. It won’t be long until it is all gone but so far, touch wood; I still have my eyebrows and eyelashes. The up side is I don’t have to wax or shave my pits and bits!
So on we go.
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