Just a quick update. I've been in hospital - AGAIN!! Galloping diarrhea. Two days on a saline drip. Last chemo is supposed to be tomorrow (23rd) but just got a call from chemo nurse to say they don't have my liver function test results through, so I have to have another blood test in the morning to see if I can have the treatment.
From the waiting room to the car park and beyond
Well, my blood test passed muster and my final chemo session went ahead. Just waiting for the side effects to kick in!! So, I've travelled reasonably safely from the waiting room to the car park and I'm enjoying the vista beyond. First though I have to have a bone density test as I'm going to be on an Aromatase Inhibitor, possibly Anastrazole. They can cause osteoporosis and as I have RA and my mum and her mum both had it, I'm at high risk. But I try to keep a good amount of calcium in my diet and I take a multi-vitamin with vitamin D in it, as I can't sit out in the sun for too long anyway.
should start the tablets in about 4 weeks time, bone test is on June 26th. Can't help wondering what the view will be like on THAT journey.
One week on from my final chemo, I have had a few awful days. Felt really bad on Tuesday, but I seem to be slowly coming out of the fog.
One problem I've had is purely an emotional one. I don't know if it's because I feel as though I'm losing control over my cancer now I'm no longer having chemo. I've been worrying about a recurrence, or spread, or even a new primary. I think the thought of having to go through chemo again is what is bothering me. Hopefully it will go away when I start the hormone tablets.
I can't understand why it is called hormone treatment as it is supposed to prevent my body from forming Oestrogen and possibly Progesterone. I prefer to call it anti-hormone treatment. This is because when I tell anyone who doesn't understand about breast cancer, they automatically think I mean HRT!! No, no, no!! Got to get that straight in everyone's mind. Hormones are what the cancer was feeding off - I want to starve it so it doesn't come back ever again.
