Tomorrow is officially the last planned treatment. I wont be out of chemotherapy tomorrow, i will be starting the final 1/2 cycle. It will be the last planned time to go to hospital and get given the drugs.
I'm sure i'll get side effects next week, but hopefully they will be the finals ones. The chemo will be officially over 2 weeks today.
In the new year i will be having radiotherapy and before that i believe i'll have another PET scan to see how the chemo has gone. It seems like ive been talking about this PET scan for months and months - but then again right now time goes very slowly for me. Each day seems like 3 days at least.
It will be good to get the chemotherapy out the way as it is the hardest part side effects wise definately.
I've been in touch with work last couple days and part of my attention is being drawn back there - going back will present a whole other set of challenges, some of them just as hard as whats passed in some ways.
I'm very lucky and fortunate to work for a company that has specific departments to help with things like this though - i'll benefit from confidential expert medical advice from an in house doctor who is qualified to the teeth and who will have access to my entire medical history and be able to give me completely impartial advice... for free. I've already made use of this and i'm sure it will continue when i get back to work.
Before i think of work, though, we need to be sure that the treatments ive had have done their job and that all is ok to proceed.
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