Yesterday evening we went to a very useful session at our local hospital's Macmillan Centre. It was a small informal group of people and their supporters who had started or were about to start chemo. We had interesting discussions with a lead nurse and two experienced chemo patients on all aspects that you worry about: how important is diet?; will the drugs make me really tired?: can I go on holiday? etc, etc. …
I began chemo on Tuesday 4th June. Intravenous processes take longer than just the main drug, something I hadn't realised before so we (I and my very supportive husband) were in the Day unit for over 3 hours. I accepted the drip into my left hand, not very clever as I'm left handed so had to stick to wobbly lines on a wordsearch book as my main entertainment! Hope I can swap in 3 weeks' time.
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