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I know chemo is my friend but today i still have that disgusting taste in my mouth, i've had to drop the painkillers as I reacted badly, I still have stomach ache and now nausea. My mouth is getting better but the same cold sores are visiting again. and sleep is apparently visiting someone else!
we had a new boiler installed yesterday and after a nights work my poor husband is downstairs washing dust from everything because i feel too sick to move - grrr.
rant over - thanks for reading :)
Wow what a journey it's been. I was first diagnosed with bowel cancer on June 13th - a day I'll never forget.
After months of stomach pain (but nothing much else) i'd never thought I'd end up being a cancer patient. Just about everything else went through my mind - IBS, Crohns, irrritable bowel, gallstones but never the 'C' word. Even my consultant was convinced it was nothing too sinister but no, cancer it was.
And so the journey began in a whirlwind of activity. More scans...
Had a bit more sleep last night, mainly because I was able to lay in a bit today
I normally deal with things quite well I think, yet I find myself just sitting here staring into space. I’m scared, I’m worried I’m .......................... (What am I)
This afternoon I have some pre op tests planned
Tomorrow evening I have a CT scan, it’s at 7pm. What a crazy time but I assume they have staff working in these departments all the time so why not make use of them
Its now day 7 after my 5th chemo (Docetaxel) and i am so encouraged its better than the last one where I literally wanted to die!
The limb pain is there but being numbed by painkillers, the mouth is just starting to get sore, and the numbness in my toes isnt scary once you know it wont last. feeling down is still a bugger because trying to hang onto perspective is hard!
Also if one more person says 'hey you look fantastic, so well' when I feel so poorly and its just the makeup I will crumple and...
