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I've been rather quiet lately, mainly because I've managed to get pulled in a million different directions with work, family and the such; people I think we are gaining some routine!
Anyway, we're now a couple of days shy of 6 months of the knowledge that my body is a factory of cell mayhem and it all seems rather far away now despite still being a part of me now. Very odd!
I turned 27 nearly 2 weeks ago and am about to have a 3rd birthday celebration! If you'd told me in April I'd...
So - I am now on my fourth cycle of vemurafenib. Side effects are not too bad - mainly feet hurting making it hard to walk and of course the queasy feeling and the tiredness...
Anyway that is not the news today. I checked my nodes at the weekend and found a lump under my right arm pit - where I have not had any occurrences previously. My dermatologist has said I should brace myself for further spread at my next scan on the 9th and my oncologist said not to panic... I wasn't going to panic - I have...
It's been a while since I wrote one of my reflective blog entries, and I think that's because I haven't been going for the sort of walks that I used to do. This was partly due to the abdominal pain that any walking seemed to cause, and partly because Susie the dog is getting so ancient now that she's happy with a walk down the lane and back again these days. So my old haunts have been off-limits recently. But that changed on Sunday. It was the most beautiful day of this Indian summer. Hubby was involved...
July 12th seems like many years away now - looking back down a long dark tunnel. I have no idea how I got through that time and am still physically in one piece. I think the initial body blow of my dearest man's passing has subsided. What I am left with is a series of muddled up thoughts that invade my head and occupy my every single waking minute. And of course I'm left with virtually no energy either.
I'm functioning on one level quite well, I'm interacting with people and do feel more...
Today is my first day without radiotherapy, it feels such s relief not to be getting ready to trip of to the hospital although I do feel a bit lost without all those people around.
The main thing that's changed is the increased mucous/ thick saliva that's being produced. There's a lot in my mouth, but I also seem to be coughing up very thick phlegm. I rinsing with salt water and alternating that with capholsol. I have a pint glass with me all the time as my spitting pot and a giant heap of toilet...
