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I understand your caution completely as we don’t want to celebrate and then get disappointed as it almost feels worse . We have decided to have a ‘we’ve paid off the mortgage after 30 years’ bottle of fizz on 14 June ( week 3)! Instead .
 I have given up alcohol apart from special occasions . Previously just a couple of glasses a week but i do still miss after 6 months . 

That’s sounds great…I’m planning a small similar celebration around the same time, week 3 for me as well. Congrats on paying off the mortgage, I did mine in November ..great feeling! I did ask chemo nurse yesterday whether I was going to have a final infusion of champagne yesterday. She laughed and said I could have tea!

Yes I am finding the same ; my nurse on Tuesday said she didn’t have time to compare chemo 2 blood test with chemo 1 . Just need precise results about white blood cells don’t we so we can start to do fun things ? I can look on my nhs app to see if I can glean anything ? Nurse mentioned 5 and 7 when pressed ????

Only liver function results on my nhs app . 

So I go into my NHS app, but within there there is an area called “my medical record” which has been set up by my hospital. It has an area called “my condition”, click on that and options are “full blood count results”, “electrolyte results”, “liver function test results”. Between these they give me the all important white blood counts, neutrophils, platelets, red blood count, and liver and kidney results. They also show graphs of trends. Hope you manage to work it out for yours, as I find them very useful once I can access them.

Thanks so much for this - my hospital has not added to my nhs in this way so I shall ask next time I speak to them . That sounds super helpful information I should love to have ! 
Thank you waidh. 

I was told to wait 4 to 6 weeks before swimming in a public pool after pelvic radiation.  I did not ask after chemo which was before radiation because I was still considered immune compromised. 

Thanks …I’m sort of thinking along those timescales

I would just see how you feel when the time comes. I think the relief of chemo finishing did give me a bit of a boost. And with chemo by the 3rd week I would feel better. I would ask your CNS about the risk of infection.

I don't see why you couldn't request a blood test. I had one at the end of chemo and also before radiotherapy started. I also asked my GP for one around a month after treatment ended.