With three chemotherapies down I now find
myself half way through the six cycles. How that happened I don’t exactly know.
It’s this weird experience of time having just flown by but yet knowing that
there’s still such a long way to go. In a way, I know that the next half will
fly by too but at the same time it still feels like a lot to get through.
The Plan C for the anti-sickness that I wrote
about it my last post went as well as could have been expected. The drugs
basically knocked me out so sickness was a whole lot better. Better asleep than
awake and having to deal with the nausea I reckon. Because my body didn’t take as
much of a whack in those first 24 hours as the last couple of times I was less
foggy for the proceeding days. The fog, however, lasted the same amount of time
that it did in the previous cycles. It then lifted right on cue on the 8th
day, in time for the arrival of my friend Zac, who’s joined the Little Keepers
Cottage crew from New Zealand… as have our 5 new friends in the photos. Well,
they haven’t joined the cottage crew
so much as forming the Little Keepers paddock crew. They’re very kindly
beginning to lay eggs for us, which is a real treat to have.
So the next chemotherapy is on July 30th
and I move onto a different chemotherapy now, docetaxul. Apparently, this one
is a much less aggressive chemo compared to the ‘FEC’ that I have been on.
They’re not expecting me to feel so nauseous and they wouldn’t expect the same
vein irritation that I’ve been experiencing so far either – both of which
sounds good to me. I think overall it’s a less taxing chemo on the body but at
the same time I’ve still got to deal with the cumulative effect of the chemotherapies
up until now. So it’s just a case of keeping putting one foot in front of the
other…as I am, and will continue to do.
So… just a short post for today, to update you
and introduce the new members of the family. I’m doing very well on the whole –
the first 8 days I do find very challenging but having the experience now and
knowing that there is light at the end of the tunnel of those 8 days, is enough
to get me through. And from then on, it’s such a treasure to be able to have a
nice time again. After such hard times, the good times are so good often they feel
so completely magical. It’s that pain and beauty is their full strength side by
side each other again. Lots of love to you all. xxxxxxx…
The Plan C for the anti-sickness that I wrote
about it my last post went as well as could have been expected. The drugs
basically knocked me out so sickness was a whole lot better. Better asleep than
awake and having to deal with the nausea I reckon. Because my body didn’t take as
much of a whack in those first 24 hours as the last couple of times I was less
foggy for the proceeding days. The fog, however, lasted the same amount of time
that it did in the previous cycles. It then lifted right on cue on the 8th
day, in time for the arrival of my friend Zac, who’s joined the Little Keepers
Cottage crew from New Zealand… as have our 5 new friends in the photos. Well,
they haven’t joined the cottage crew
so much as forming the Little Keepers paddock crew. They’re very kindly
beginning to lay eggs for us, which is a real treat to have. So the next chemotherapy is on July 30th
and I move onto a different chemotherapy now, docetaxul. Apparently, this one
is a much less aggressive chemo compared to the ‘FEC’ that I have been on.
They’re not expecting me to feel so nauseous and they wouldn’t expect the same
vein irritation that I’ve been experiencing so far either – both of which
sounds good to me. I think overall it’s a less taxing chemo on the body but at
the same time I’ve still got to deal with the cumulative effect of the chemotherapies
up until now. So it’s just a case of keeping putting one foot in front of the
other…as I am, and will continue to do.So… just a short post for today, to update you
and introduce the new members of the family. I’m doing very well on the whole –
the first 8 days I do find very challenging but having the experience now and
knowing that there is light at the end of the tunnel of those 8 days, is enough
to get me through. And from then on, it’s such a treasure to be able to have a
nice time again. After such hard times, the good times are so good often they feel
so completely magical. It’s that pain and beauty is their full strength side by
side each other again. Lots of love to you all. xxxxxxx…
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