Day before chemo comes around way too fast!! Im finally back to 'normal' living, been cramming patients in these last few days and working in the gym before I'm off for another week, and boom were back to chemo week!!
So this morning was my oncology appointment with Doc Marshall and Clare (chemo nurse), plus today another student Dr watching on. Although my body isn't reacting how it should through chemo, the main thing is is its working! The chemo is shrinking the tumour and I'm getting there! Albeit strangely!! Tomorrow is round 4. And not half way! I want to shoot anyone saying its half way right now (I've heard it too many times & it's driving me insane!) Im not half way and Im nowhere near half way of active treatment! Ive another four rounds of these chemo drugs, then surgery and reconstruction followed by three weeks radiotherapy with boosters, and I'll still be on the chemo ward every couple of weeks until January next year!! So half way is a long long way off!! Listening to people talk about chemo is funny, 'oh don't you just take some tablets and you're cured' I think is the funniest comment I've heard so far! Errrrmm Nope! Lots of needles, drips, drugs, bloods.... And then you get onto the side effects! Losing the hair, eyelashes, eyebrows (bonus of not having to shave the legs!!), the sickness and nausea, the no taste buds and horrific taste and feeling in the mouth, constant runny nose, watering eyes, losing your finger and toe nails, the bloating from the steroids (I currently have hamster cheeks!), migraine style headaches every night, lumpy damaged arms from the cannulas and drugs... And these are just the easy/non important/less serious side effects, forget the risks of strokes and cardiac arrest etc.... The list is endless! But currently I resemble a hairless hamster with nails done for the first time in like forever (who knew I could be a girly girl after all!) !! They've bumped up my bone marrow injections, as they didn't work how they should have done last time, I've been put on extra potassium since last time so I don't end up being hospitalised again, so tomorrow I get a goody bag of drugs on top of the normal tablets.... Upping my dosage to two injections, and 21 tablets a day.... So a hairless rattling hamster is coming to an island near you soon!! I think the chemo nurses and Doc Marshall think I'm nuts... Im positive and smiling every appointment, don't get me wrong there's down days, but deciding to be positive and continue as much as normal. Because im awaiting the genetic results and the reimaging etc, my stats of return and spread are basically up in the air, I know roughly what they stand at, and ive decided not to let it worry me at the minute, after all that bus could come along and wipe me out instead whilst wondering too much!! The general consensus is you stay off work until active treatment is over... Anyone who knows me knows that was never going to happen! So this weekend I'm running/walking the 10k Cancer Research Winter Run through London. Hopefully the legs hold together and I won't be back with my other buddies... The crutches! Compression tights and Morphine at the ready, it seems far more apt this year to do it! And thankfully the big bro is coming home to do it with me and make me be sensible if my body does fail on me!! Plus friday I've also got the Finals announcement for the Venus Awards... A little bit excited to say the least! Regardless of whether I get through to the finals, im still heading to the awards night in March! Anything to dress up! The plus one ticket is open to suggestions.... 😂😂!! But for this evening Im enjoying my last evening feeling good for another ten days and my last meal tasting something as a hairless rattling hamster, oh no wait, I'll enjoy sponge... again, but roll on round 4! ️Xxx
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David Conroy
1/27/2016 02:16:01 pm
My god youve got courage Victoria xxx
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Victoria
1/27/2016 02:59:14 pm
Thanks David :) x
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1/28/2019 08:09:12 am
There is no half way talk for the parents. The center of the discussion is opened for the conversation. The challenge of the removal of the problem is done for the inquisition of the forms for the students in the field of the arguments.
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