Mums been just ok all week. She is still very tired even though it's now been 16 days since her 5th chemo. We were warned that she would get more tired with each one but the first 4 seemed to follow the same pattern, 7 days of extreme tiredness then picked up. This time the extreme tiredness has continued and she's not felt like going out at all. She has her final chemo next Friday assuming her white count is ok so I hope she picks up over the next few days.
Another worrying thing is that over the past few days she has started to complain of a sore neck. She says it's not there all the time just certain ways she moves or opens her mouth. She says it's a sort of dull pain. She asked me yesterday to feel if it was swollen but I couldn't feel any difference in that side with the other. She thought it may be a swollen gland. It seems to go up from her jaw from what she describes and gillian and I wonder now if it may be an abcess, I hope not. My worry of course is that it's the cancer, I'm paranoid about any ache or pain she feels. If it's still painful tomorrow we'll ring the gp and get him to take a look.
She has done so well over the last 4 1/2 months and has been so positive but I think she's is just getting a bit fed up with it all now, understandably. She could really do with a holiday and it's just a shame that because of a few delays our initila plan to get away over Easter has now had to be postponed until my next holiday at the end of May. I love my job and have never wanted to do anything else but it would be great if I could just take her away for a week when she feels good instead of having to hope that she feels good when I get my next holiday. Well that's it for this week. Hopefully next week I'll be able to report that she's had her 6th and final chemo.
