The day has come, first session of 6, Carboplatin/Paclitaxel this morning @ 9.30am, I’m advised about 3 hours.
Obviously I’m dreading the unknown of what the side effects are going to be for me. I’ve picked up lots of tips from all you lovely people on here.
Enjoy your Bank Holiday Weekend everyone.
Thank you so much for sharing . Yes I am sticking to peppermint tea and ginger biscuits arriving tomorrow.
I got fed up today as learnt next CT scan is a month after last brachy so there goes all the warm weather this year for travel plans. I think we naturally like to have a date to do something to mark end of treatment but I don’t think I will enjoy much awaiting scan results mid October and would rather be home .
I had a similar thought the other day when told I would have scan late August and follow up with consultant in Sept. I have holiday booked in mid Sept, and was trying to work out if I would want the results before I go away or when I return! I suppose this is what we will have to get used to going forwards.
You are so right as for me the scans are every three months for me (for first 2 years? ). We are a similar boat, but let’s hope we find a way of planning nice things . I decided to write to oncologist yesterday to request a face to face appointment date at the same time as a CT date. This way I can prepare myself as I received my cancer diagnosis out of the blue on my mobile phone when visiting local library. I feel a need to have a tiny bit of control now and don’t want to be fearful of my mobile phone at these times ( or being apart from it !) . I know it is a moan about the nhs for which I feel guilty but I haven’t seen a single clinician twice in 9 months . This is partly because I have been treated by two hospital trusts as I was referred to bigger teaching hospital for lymph node removal in hysterectomy and the two can’t share notes!
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