Everyone keeps telling me about someone they know who got through this and is currently fine.Which is lovely and encouraging of course but it always turns out that they had a 'better' cancer than mine.Mine is HER2 positive,fortunately at least now. treatable to some extent with herceptin.But ,let us kid not, a nasty cancer all the same.Still, I know that it is not the only factor involved, and there are loads of stories…
Thanks for all your comments...really helpful!
This time I didn't have the cold cap and the treatment went straight into the central line(too many years of watching ER,I know it's actually called a Port a Cath?)so I actually felt much more in control! For once.Although now I' m shedding hair about like noone's business!I keep blaming the cat.The first night after FEC all shivery and shaky but now two days on just nausea…
My hair has not gone yet, although there is a crawling sensation across the scalp which I suspect does not bode well.In any case I thought I'd test out the wig(long, reddish brown) on the school run.Of course I'm really bad with hair real or false so I just kind of plonked it on with a baseball cap on top.Most mums were really kind about it(the ones that knew).The ones that didn't know,and also the kids, clearly thought…
Just before Easter, I found a lump in my breast.The Gp was convinced that it was nothing, even accused me of being paranoid.I hopped and skipped to the consultant and the mammogram, still sure that it would be just wasting time and even elated that the mammogram didn't hurt like everyone said!Then the consultant entered the room and he might as well have been carrying a placard 'That's it,it's curtains for you'.They left…
