Started my first day of chemo and radiotherapy together .The nurses are so wonderful and on your first day it helps so much everyone is so kind at the Marsden .
The radio first session takes a long time setting up all the parameters and with lungs if you can do deep breaths you have a snorkle so your lungs don t move so direct hit (interesting fact) so managed that fine .Straight onto chemo .Lots of anti-sickness medication then for me an hours chemo and then a wash through so probably 3 hours in total We were given tea and lunch trolley lovely lay Back chairs so made us very comfortable with my visitor .was given all my drugs to take home a f/up pill form of chemo and back on the 8 th day for blood tests and consult .i just thought I would document this as you can’t find many notes on here for actual procedures of people having them both together .I went for 2 nd radio today and a bit traumatic as snorkel not working and too many deep breaths so I ll have to practise at home with my grandsons snorkel ?.They think I m strong enough to do this so I m going to give it a good try I have 8 lovely grandchildren to make me smile .I will try and keep this updated .Not sure if people are interested but I will see if any responses If it helps one person that’s ok
3rd session of radio today went much better so hopefully another good day I have been hearing a lot of comments about anti sickness pills about causing diviculitus or other blockages does anyone know about this ?
