Noj's blog

Monday was the second FEC appointment. As feared following the Friday blood test - the Port didn't work. My luck was in and with heat applied they were able to find another vein and so the treatment went ahead as planned. I'll be going in again next Monday to see if we can get the port working. Failing that we will need to call in the guy that fitted it to see what he might suggest / do. Other than that, washing…

I'm delighted to say that the last 3 weeks have been a bit up and down but nothing unbearable.... I had a follow up appointment today to have my blood checked. The results were good so I'm good to go for my second treatment on Monday. The only blot on this otherwise somewhat boring landscape is that I asked them to use the port to take my blood to make sure it was working for Monday..... and it didn’t! Despite…

The day finally dawned when I was to have my first chemo!!!! Oh the excitement of it! Emmet, our youngest, was really playing up this morning and leading up to saying he didn't want to go to school. We managed to jolly him out of it - which was great because it meant that Brendan could stay at my appointment with me. Half way to the hospital we got a call from the school saying Emmet needed his asthma inhallers and…

The head shaving went very well. I was really worried that it would be a very emotional experience and actually it wasn't at all. It was fab! My hairdresser took me upstairs to the training area of the salon so that we were on our own and I swear he must have spent 2 hours doing it! He took such good care of me.... First he cut, then he shaved and got closer and closer each time. He is so lovely - he then went out…

This morning I treated myself to a bacon sandwich, a glass of orange juice and a coffee for breakfast as I had been told to be nil by mouth from 08:00 onwards. I arrived on the ward at 12 o'clock today as requested. A nurse had two unsuccessful attempts at getting a needle into my hand and ended up getting the ward sister to find a vein in the outer side of my arm to fit the cannula to take bloods as well as to administer…