Everywhere I look I get conflicting information on how to carefor Sally's Hickman Line. Some trusts say flush twice a week, some once. Some trusts say use a Heparin lock, some don't. Some trusts say aspirate before flushing, some don't. Some trusts use a bionectar, some don't. In fact, there is even confusion within my local trust because on the Oncology ward they flush once a week and don't use bionectars whereas at…
I just wanted to give a quick update to the blog as I haven't been updating the Latest News for a few days and I wanted to explain why.
We actually managed to get away for a few days in the caravan! Yippee! OK, we didn't go very far... just 3 miles actually!!! We went and stayed on the site where we store the van in Landrake, just 3 miles west of Saltash. We were hoping to get away to a friends birthday party near…
We went to the hospital yesterday for a review of Sal's progress with the oncology team yesterday.
It all went pretty much as we expected. The last cycle they dropped the Adriamycin (doxorubicin) and they plan to continue the rest of the cycles with just TC (Taxotare and cyclophosphamide).
The surgery wound is finally showing signs of healing and the Hickman line is all OK.
Sal is to continue to take Metoclopramide…
Well I haven't done a post for quite a few days now so I thought I would write a quick update of how last week went.
All in all it hasn't been a bad week. Sal still has part of her surgery wound that hasn't healed yet and that is the main issue right now. The surgery wound healed but when she was in hospital last cycle a 1 inch section of it came apart and got slightly infected. It hasn't really healed much since…
It has been a couple of days since posting so I thought I would drop in and post an update.
The good news is that there isn't much to report. Sal is very fatigued and spends all day resting in her chair at the moment but that is the bulk of the effects of chemo 2 at the moment. This is pretty similar to cycle 1 which didn't go wrong until she started taking the antibiotic on day 5. This time the oncologist has said that…
