Funny week so far. i'n feeling much better and able to most things I want to do, but looming in the back of my mind is the 2nd treatment due next monday. I think that it is harder to go in for the second dose as I now know how ill I'm going to be.
My hair is steadly falling out. It is also hurting at the roots. I got my hairdressor to cut it quite short and he featherd it around the edges. It looks OK. If I pull at it quite a lots comes out and this morning I manage to block the plughole whislt showering. (Nice job fishing it out - not.) I'm not sure how long it will be until it has all gone:(
I came back this evening to 15 missed calls. Later the doctors receptionist called me to tell me they had been trying to get hold of me and they had booked me in for a repeat blood test tomorrow. To cut a long story, evenually the duty doctor called me, because my white blood count was so low. (He didn't realise I was on Chemo.) Panic over.
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