Hi Everyone,
I had my 5th round of FEC 75 last Tuesday (23rd) having had a lumpectomy (14th March) and ANC (8th April) and I am feeling so very down that I don't know what to do with myself. I have just made an appointment to see my GP in the morning because this feeling has been with me now for 3 days and if anything, it is just getting worse. I can't stop crying and I can't see round the next corner - I've felt really…
Hi All,
Following my first chemo on 30th May, I had terrible pains in my left calf (down from knee to ankle) it really ached. I went to my GP who said it was nothing to do with the chemo - it is the site of an injury I incurred when hit by a car in 1981. I said I thought it was strange that this injury suddenly hurt me after 36 years of nothing but a few cramps in it? GP gave me cream and painkillers. 4 days later…
I was in the shower this morning and decided (while washing my naked scalp) to write an Ode to Hair Loss...it sort of started off making me a bit sad and then I laughed, because as we all know - without laugher, we would curl up and lay in bed fretting and that won't get us anywhere! Off to oncologist in an hour to find a miracle cure for my aching legs and veins.
I thought I wouldn’t miss it much
I thought…
Hello everyone,
I had my first chemo on 30th May and apart from a little bit of trouble getting the cannula in, it went okay on the day. The final of the 6 syringes of 'stuff' did start to make my vein ache a little bit as it went in, but it was bearable.
Since then, I have had some side effects - a dizzy day, a bruised-like pain day, a completely wiped out day - couldn't stop eating for the first ten days after…
Hi All,
I am at work this morning before going off for an ECG (pre-chemo) this afternoon and in the midst of all the chaos, I received the call giving me the date of my first chemo - it's Tuesday 30th May.
I had this sudden need to cry once I'd put down the phone and I want to dash off for a weekend in France for the Bank Holiday - one last hurrah! perhaps before life changes for a while. We have a friend's 50th…
