Wednesday 15th March 2017.
Yesterday I had my last chemo session of the 3xFEC and 3xT. I still can't believe there are no more chemo sessions. I was very worried that it would be delayed because of my bloods not being good enough, but in fact they were very very good this time, every thing was good, kidneys, liver, blood oxygen etc, blood pressure. I was very pleased to get it done. Still three weeks to carry on with the infection control regime, taking temperature every morning but after the three weeks then I can have the soft cheeses, prawns, eggs etc, but I will still need to phone the chemo unit for a further three weeks if I have an infection, but the end is in sight.
I am going to be in hospital in three weeks time having my lumpectomy though, so it'll have to wait just a little longer.
So I am sitting here writing this blog, thinking that the side effects will kick in for the last time soon, the sooner they come and go the better.
On Monday I see my surgeon and she will go through everything including the surgery, and give me a mammogram and ultrasound too. Then the following week is the pre op assessment appointment, the surgery on my birthday.
I can't help thinking this last few days that a year ago I was on holiday in Grand Canaria, I was so happy...life was good. I had a couple of months after we got back before I got the letter for the mobile mammogram unit appointment, then on the 6th June (wedding anniversary) that was when it all started. With my lumpy history and two previous lumpectomies, I just had a feeling that the bullet I'd been dodging for many years wasn't going to let me dodge it again! I absolutely knew I'd be recalled...
My eyebrows are making a comeback and the eyelashes are too, just teeny bits poking through. My head hair seems to be growing slowly, very slowly, but it's there.
I took the last steroids at lunch time and will start the stomach injections tomorrow, it'll seem very strange not having all these drugs to take.
I'm feeling very relieved to be at the end of the chemotherapy, but I now have another set of things to worry about. The surgeons appointment, pre op appointment and surgery, then the results and findings of the surgery, then three weeks of radiotherapy. The chemo had a set routine about it, whereas the next stages don't but I've come this far, and have to get to the end now. The worst is over with the chemo surely and all the worry that goes with it?
Step by step I'm getting to the light at the end of the tunnel, I hope!
Time to relax, it's been a busy, busy day.
Stop this ride....I want to get off!!!
