I felt amazingly relaxed this morning as I hung around at home passing time until I had to leave for the hospital as I was scheduled into afternoon surgery. My first visit of the day was to the breast clinic, to drop in a magseed - basically a ...
With chemo complete I now move onto the next stage, 12 cycles of Phesgo, given by subcutaneous (I had to look that up in Mr Google) injection. Isn't it funny, in former times I'd have said I had to look it up in the dictionary, now I re...
I finished my 6th and final round of chemo 3 weeks ago and I noticed in the last 2 cycles my finger nails were tender, feeling bruised, like I managed to shut both hands in a door. Today I removed the UV nail varnish that was meant to keep them...
I know I am very fortunate to have my treatment funded by my company’s health insurance, but today it all went a little wrong. Somehow, between the oncologist, the healthcare at home provider and Axa, they failed to approve the next cycle in my...
The worst of the side effects of my last chemo are now well and truly over and done with and it's 2 weeks until surgery so I have the chance to feel normal again. On the positive side, I will be released from the “pregnancy diet” in a...
