Hi Amimal, glad your PICC is all done in the end! I’ve had surgery on both sides and they put the blood pressure band on my forearm. Re the PICC line - it’s on my right arm which was my first surgery in Aug and obviously opposite side to my latest surgery. Less nodes biopsied as well but they don’t expect it to an issue. My PICC feels ok now too. Started Paclitaxel today. It Went ok, feeling a bit sleepy but not sure if that’s medication or that I’ve not slept too good last few days. Bed shortly for me.
Paclitaxel #5 today plus second Herceptin which is an injection that goes in your thigh. This is to target the HER2 aspect of my cancer.
All went well, I had extra steroids and antihistamines. They started the pac off and I looked at the timer on the pump and it said 4 hours, this was at 3.35!!! So I queried it with the nurse. They were a bit perplexed it was so long particularly so late in the day. They checked with the head nurse and by this time 15 minutes had gone by and I was feeling fine so they shortened the infusion. I still didn't get home until 6.45pm though.
Hoping I get a morning appointment next week. 4 chemos to go - YAY!
Long session Jacala, more than half way through, yay!!
My appointment was late yesterday and I’ve set myself a mini goal to butter up the nurses to get one of the bays opposite at least once as they have a great view over the city which looked magnificent at sunset. Small positive goals to keep me moving through the next 20 weeks.
I'm actually on 8 as I had 3 EC before Christmas and set for 9 Paclitaxel so 12 cycles of chemo in total. Those EC seem like so long ago now.
We are given a printed out sheet with the Pod where we're sitting. There are 8 pods and I've sat in all but one of them now. One pod is rubbish and face the toilets but the others are ok. Pod 3 is in the centre of the room, very busy and always have 3-4 staff.
Its very well run but appointment ALWAYS run over. One day I didn't sit down for 45minutes. Can't complain though. I go to Royal Stoke.
12 weekly Paclitaxel first for me with EC second (x4) - so opposite way round to you. I think it’s always a strange feeling when you look back at what you’ve been through. Like blooming heck, how amazing are we all?!!
Not been given a list of the pods, not sure how many we have actually but I did notice one by the toilets lol.
I’m at Clatterbridge, quite a new one in Liverpool. It’s a lovely building.
Yeah is is amazing how far we come. My first chemo was 1st October & it seems like a lifetime ago.
Im so close to the end of chemo and it's really not been as bad as I expected. Bit like childbirth, once it's over you forget about it lol.
I've met some amazing friends through this too, we have a local cancer charity that has a Facebook page and meets once a month. They also do outings and walks etc which is amazing.
This sounds reassuring and is good to hear x I'm sitting here for my first session, running late but the nurses seem lovely,I have a view of the garden x
