**JANUARY BREAST CANCER CHEMO**

Hi JanG20, had my picc line in a few weeks ago, just before starting chemo, I was there about 1 1/2 hours, my husband waited in the waiting area outside the ward, it didn’t hurt, your arm may become bruised and a bit sore, just for a while.

They didn’t give me any covers, I bought a water proof one from Amazon and a fabric cover to x

Thanks Crawler, I have just ordered waterproof one and so you have the link to the other cover you bought?

If you search fabric picc line cover on Amazon, it will bring them up xx

https://www.annabandana.co.uk/

JanG20, I also bought a picc line cover from the above link, and a couple of chemo hats, a kind lady from here told me about them, quick delivery to x

Thanks Crawler

Hi Everyone

So after a painfully long wait for my consultant to contact me, 12 days, I finally have been able to discuss my reaction to paclitaxol and decided on my final weeks treatment plan.

Reactions to paclitaxol like I had are common, although what happened to me, sounded awful, it can happen, so he wasn’t concern. But I was given the options of stopping chemo, or continuing on a slower infusion and extra premeds, and if I have another bad reaction, chemo will stop.

Don’t know if I’m mad, but I have chosen to continue as I only have two sessions to go, and I want to try do everything I can to prevent the cancer coming back. Plus the good news, no extra session is being added. I was thinking my consultant would add another session, as I only managed a 1/3 of my chemo after my reaction, but lucky I will be finishing as planned.

plus already have my radiotherapy planning meeting appointment come through! 

Hope everyone is doing okay!

Xxx

Hi Kelstar

Good to see you have a plan for moving forward, it is so hard knowing what decisions to make sometimes. I ended up with my paclitaxel being stopped after 8 of my weekly doses due to my face rash. I was a bit worried about stopping and whether it would have the maximum affect, but my oncologist assured me I had been given enough for it to do it's work.

Good luck with your final two sessions 

x

Glad to hear you finally had your appointment and can now continue on with a plan!

I summoned all my energy today to get through my mid chemo - pre surgery MRI to see exactly what surgery will be required. Obviously they don’t give anything away so now the wait for the results appt..

Must admit I did feel better for getting out of the house and it helps that my hospital is a very short drive away. 

Hollythecathope you managed some extra sleep and feel a bit brighter.

thinking of you & I hope you are now feeling less nauseous. 

Wishing everyone a good night’s sleep tonight xx

Kelstar9Just looping you in.  realised I looped in the wrong Kelstar on my post above!