I have my first treatment of radiotherapy today at 4:20pm. I have been waiting for this date for quite a while now and I just want it all to start properly. I've had all of the planning appointments and have had the mask made etc etc but have been waiting for today to come for about a month or so.
Travelling to the hospital will be tough (as I can't really drive at the moment - I'll find a way) but there is good public transport. And I have some friends who have agreed to give me lifts and put me up for the night. What wonderful people!
I'm not sure how much I'll blog about it as i'm not big into diary-keeping/blogging/record-keeping but we'll see. Speak later.
JD
FormerMember
Hello JD - what do you mean 'can't really drive'? That's like being a little bit pregnant! Don't drive if you don't feel up to it, that would be madness. No sense treating the cancer and killing yourself on the road. Have a lift, please!
Best of luck with it all. Do keep us informed, even just a few words would be nice, you don't have to write a whole memoir!
I had a similar problem, lived a long way from the hospital ( 80 mile round trip) and couldn't drive because of infections in surgery wounds meaning I was a one armed bandit!
Public Transport was non existent either ( Trains and Taxis costing a fortune each week) . Contact the Secretary of your Oncologist, Surgeon or Radiotherapist, you should be able to access transport each day provided by the hospital you are attending. The only criteria where I lived was medical need ( no means testing) . I needed radiotherapy, but couldn't drive, so for each of the 25 sessions, I was collected and returned to my home at no expense to myself by the Hospital Car Service provided by my PCT .
When I say 'can't really drive', I mean that I know that I shouldn't because I am having a few little seizures where I can't grip anything with one hand or both. I have fallen over and been 'out of it' for a few seconds, all of which are not compatible with good driving (and with my insurance company). I assume all of this has something to do with the steroids that i'm taking, or that's what the nurse has told me. It is difficult for me to accept that there are things that I can't do, or shouldn't do.
