Hi All,
Long time no blog, have found the chemo regime really hard to handle, have never visited the doctors/hospital as much before in my life, sick of blood tests to check my blood count and viens are finally running into hiding as soon as a needle appears.
The first treatment went ok and had a good 5-6 days of wondering what it was all about as felt fine apart from a bit spacey. Second treatement and again a few…
Well here I am trying to gear up to round two of the chemo cycle.
I took the bull by the horns on Friday and had my head shaved, I think the hairdresser bless her was more upset than me, in a strange way it was comforting to know that that is it it has gone and no more hair trails to follow around the house.
Had a huge bust up with my oldest daughter yesterday which resulted in me asking her to go and stay with her…
Well as you can all see sleep seems to be evading me tonite, feel a lot better that I have been the past week so thats a big bonus, hair falling away at a great rate of speed so it will be off to the hairdressers tomorrow and have the lot shaved off, its been like owing a shaggy dog...hairs everywhere.
Think I can do this now, just need to get back to full strength ready for the next round of chemo on Monday but at least…
I actually though I had got away with it. For the first 8 days after having my first cycle of chemo I was sailing through it and then it happened...........I hit the wall full in the face and went down like the preverbial bag.
This resulted in having to call the doctor out on Tuesday last week and 3 insuccessful attempts by him to take blood using the same needle each time, then deciding to give a broad spectrum anti…
Well after my first session of chemo on Monday the week has been a bit up and down, not too sure how I am supposed to be feeling still havent read the whole book of rules and regulations that goes with this.
First few days felt fine, a bit spacey but other than that fine, kept waiting for it to hit me but nothing seemed to be happening. Then major disaster yesterday....my wonderful hubby bought me a new wedding ring…
