Last day of treatment: feeling sad

Martina3, that's how we all feel after! So get it off your chest, and think how far you have come. I'm hoping court will provide the after treatment link, please? I found this paper very insightful, hope you do too. Take care

https://www.workingwithcancer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/After-the-treatment-finishes-then-what.pdf

Hope this helps !

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me to want to sleep and recover . Once the adrenaline that carries people through settles you can see people wilt a bit with exhaustion. However you put that celebration in the diary for the future !

I also just want to say very well done for enduring so much whilst still maintaining all your other roles . That makes you a true hero in my book. 
Recharge your batteries for a bit , you have earned the rest for sure .

Take care ,

Court 

Hi Martina3. I remember feeling the same. My hubby wanted me to ring the bell in the waiting area but I didn’t see the point as a) I hadn’t finished treatment - just the first part of it and b) I felt guilty ‘celebrating’ as there were others still going through it. As it happened we had to meet with someone on the trial team and then we forgot and drove home! Didn’t feel like celebrating so got a supermarket ready meal!
My treatment was in Leeds so I used to drive into Halifax, park up, walk to the station, get the train to Leeds then the bus to the hospital then do it all in reverse and drive to work. I used to ask for an early morning appointment so after 5 weeks of that I was ready for a few lie ins and coffee with friends! 
I found the next few weeks while you wait for it to finish working to be quite strange - I almost forgot I was poorly until all the treatment started up again! I’m sure your energy levels and optimism will return so why not suggest your hubby has a bit of father/daughter/mother-in-law quality time and takes them both to the park/zoo/ anywhere really and let you have a few hours doing exactly what you like!

Hope you have a good response to the chemoradiotherapy- please keep posting and let us know how you’re doing?

Take care

Karen x

Hi, Kareno62, I hadn't realized you were on a trial, which one is/was it?

hi Gemmary I had RAPIDO trial. 28 day of chemo/radiotherapy resting weekends

Thanks, I’ll check it

Thanks I’ll check the information later on

Hi Gemmary I was (am?) on the Aristotle trial. It was for stage 3 with no mets and I had 4 (? Can’t remember now!) courses of Irinotecan during my chemoradiotherapy to see if it helped prevent a reoccurrence. Had regular bloods and a couple of questionnaires but not heard anything from anyone about it for the last couple of years? I might mention it at my consultation on friday and see if I get red carpet treatment! x

Sorry gemmary I thought you were asking me 

Not directly, but interested, as there seems to be so many trials!! I'm on the Add Aspirin one. People don't seem to say, unless I miss it.