just saying hi

Hi Cazza56.

Welcome! And hope bloods and chemo cycle go well.

You may find it helpful to pop some details 'about you' in your profile. Then other users can click on your username and see where your at with your cancer journey - though suggest you only put whatever you're happy to share.

Welcome to the forum from me too .

Hope your bloods go well today and everything goes smoothly on Friday !

Take care ,

Court 

Hello & welcome to the group Cazza 

Hope chemo went well for you today

Nothing ever goes smoothly

an hour long discussion on whether they should go ahead with this cycle, agreed they should. Finished chemo, but no drugs from pharmacy!  Waited until 3pm bearing in mind I’d been there since 9.30am, went away for an hour for coffee, came back still no pills!! One of the nurses came with me to the pharmacy to find out that one of the meds was out of stock. How can they run out of stock, they’re a hospital?  Took away what they had, missing one item so have to go back this morning to collect it. Very frustrating.

Gosh it was a long and frustrating day for you Cazza56 . Pharmacy really slows the process down . I thought we were getting mum at 1 pm but it ran into 3:30 pm . I think I will need to seek out things to do around the hospital . But I feel for you as going back the next day is such a time waster and let’s face it another trauma going through the doors when you just want to be home .

Hope your weekend is working out better for you and you get to do something nice .

Court

Hi Cazza56

That is indeed a tough 1st session. 

I want to reassure you that things do normally go better than that. For example, my chemo unit checks any changes in my needs before starting treatment, then gets all prescriptions brought up to ward within first 2 hours of treatment.

Perhaps on your next cycle and to help you rebuild confidence in process, you could gently remind them at start of any prescriptions your expacting?

Gosh,what a nuisance having to go back.on one occasion when they decided to up my capecitabine they didnt have enough  but gave me what they had and let me go home.then delivered the rest to my home the following day.

All the best

Kath

I know this was probably a one off but it just makes things harder to deal with.   This was session 4 so yes I know things are not always chaotic.the staff are wonderful and do their best under difficult circumstances.