There’s a lot of terminology used when it comes to cancer and I think a lot of us are left to piece together the jargon with the help of Google in order to try and make sense of our condition…
Category: treatment
Somehow, we have found ourselves at the end of the first part of all of this
No. More. Chemo. It kind of ran up on me suddenly, with all the unknowns of whether I would be finishing my chemo or not. The ending was pretty anticlimactic I suppose. As it was chemo at home, it had been fairly easy. No pumps or 3L/day of water leading up to getting disconnected, no…
And suddenly… it appears I’m on my LAST CHEMO!!!!!!!
So I went into clinic today not knowing where I was at in the whole chemo schedule. I was waiting on test results to see what would happen next. Scenario one: If my kidneys were still struggling, I would have one more chemo (my fave chemo-at-home), starting today. Scenario two: if my heart AND kidneys…
Phlebotomist fights
This morning I had a fight with a phlebotomist. They’re the people who take your blood. So I go down to the blood people on days when I’m starting chemo to get everything tested to see if I’m ok to start. It was a lady I hadn’t seen before. She got everything out to take…
Complementary therapies…
I once went and saw this very expensive ‘specialist’ on recommendation from some friends as a last ditch effort to fix my shoulder pain. He was… A chiropractor and acupuncturist and… some sort of voodoo man. I mean I’m already sceptical of chiropractors – I have been warned of them by physios before that they’re…
Chemo at home is fun!
Well. Firstly, chemo is go! My platelets were behaving. Still low but behaving. So now I have this amazing 2 days of chemo at home! Super easy, I just carry around my little ‘baby’s bottle’ as they call it, which slowly diffuses into me over 46 hours! It’s like a big strong rubber balloon that…
A day filled with bombshells.
Today was a big day. I met with the surgeon who was 2 hours late to see me… So that was fun. He (and his team) dropped a couple of bombshells. I might not be able to sing after the surgery. Like… Ever. Or at least it might change my voice… I’ll have a scar…
Unfortunately… No going home today.
Most importantly, I can’t thank you all enough for your finger crossing, crossing of various limbs, thoughts, hopes, well wishes. Unfortunately cancer/chemo wins this round and I can’t get home for our planned Christmas lunch /day of cheer tomorrow. I was feeling a bit down about it. But we’ll go to the pub for lunch…
The roller coaster ride that puts me in the ward… then puts me back in the Cotton Rooms the next day… But now we need home tomorrow please!!!
So… This is going to be a bit of a roller coaster. post. This morning kind of went from bad to worse… My hopes to get out tomorrow (Friday) in time for our Christmas lunch on Saturday were slowly to rapidly slipping away from me. And my hopes to get out of the ward and…
The end of Cycle three… that means HALF WAY, PEOPLE!!!
Well as always on a Methotrexate week I had my blood test at midday and was waiting for the all important result to say I can actually get to go home today. It was a bit touch and go today, my levels on the previous days hadn’t been low enough. But my kidneys must have…
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