Hi,
What a week! My dad (78 year old with stage 4 stomach cancer) had his second round of chemo on Monday, following a two and half week dealt due to his tumour bleeding.
I was staying with my parents (and my brother who lives with them) since Sunday so I was there to take my dad to his appointment.
The chemo session was less traumatic for my dad than he thought it would be (he suffers with chronic anxiety), so we were feeling good.
Tuesday morning, I noticed my brother was coughing a lot. Took a lateral test and it was positive! Panic stations for me!
My parents and I all did laterals which were negative, so I whisked them off to my place in the hope of keeping them from it. Sadly, we have all now got covid.
I'm really worried about my dad. This is the last thing he needs. He had a bad bout of diarrhea come on suddenly yesterday (soiled himself) and was sick. I was struggling to hold back the tears as I hate seeing him suffer. He couldn't eat much and felt week when he got up this morning.
He has been eating today, but has had one more bout of diarrhea so far.
Hes booked in for the antiviral treatment tomorrow at the hospital, but isnt keen on going because he is worried about the diarrhea. I told him he has to go and to take some imodium before hand.
Just wondered if anyone else has experienced covid whilst on chemo?
And if anyone has had the anti viral treatment?
Thanks
Hi Link103,
So sorry to read about what your poor dad has been going through. My wife's treatment was some time ago and no covid then but of course there was still the inevitable rounds of colds/flu and the rest.
She did go though a stage of being sick and having diarrhoea both at the same time and had a couple of stays in hospital on iv antibiotics while they tried to get her temperature stable.
The doctors and nurses are more than used to dealing with problems like this, though it is often the acute embarrassment of the patient especially if it happens in front of friends of family that can be the hardest to deal with.
It might just help to give the hospital a quick ring about this and take their advice though, chemotherapy drugs can sometimes have some quite complex interactions with even simple over the counter medication and they would be able to check everything is ok.
<<hugs>>
Steve
