So I'm outside the place, waiting for my husband to arrive. Coming out of the tube station, my emotions give in and I get very tearful. The portacath area is still quite sore so I guess I wasn't ready to drive yet as the seatbelt lay exactly where the tube is, but I did this morning and I got my wig too. I needed it tonight, at home. It was quite a painful drive to the shopping centre (where the wig was) and then back…
So I had the portacath fitted last Thursday and my 1st chemo session will be in 3 days time, this Thursday.
Toni and Guy called me and my wig had arrived. I will be able to collect on Saturday. I've also ordered a couple of headwear items from Amazon, due to arrive this week. It was not too bad shopping for these items although I am not sure how I will feel once they arrive. I bought some false eyelashes last weekend…
However traumatic the first few days of diagnosis were, I knew I was going to be open about this from the start and share the news with those close to me and in my every day life. It was the one time in my life when I would not be able to pull off a brave face with a huge smile (like I always do) and people around me should know what has happened. Obviously telling my family was hard, they already knew about the various…
I found out in week 5 that I would need to undergo a 12 week treatment plan of Taxol to be administered once a week, every week. At week 6, I will be having a portacath inserted so that they can just 'plug' in the chemo every week without having to try and locate a vein and risk damage to the veins from weekly cannulas inserted. This was booked get the Thursday and my first chemo session to star my one week after. …
http://community.macmillan.org.uk/blogs/b/weblog - Week 1 - Diagnosis
I was diagnosed with IDC Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Type 1- Grade 2 exactly one week ago. The day of the lumpectomy has finally arrived. As I wanted the procedure carried out as soon as possible, they were not able to get all the pre-operative procedures conducted on 1 site. My first appointment was at 9.00am in one hospital to have a radioactive…
