Starting Chemo
Hi everyone Well my journey started in April with diagnosis of breast cancer. Since then I've had the surgery, the pet scan, an ECG and blood work done. I start Chemo on Wednesday with Doxorubici...
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Hi @Joleystub
I'm also a member of the grade 3 club. As others have said make sure you're comfy! I have a chemo port too so had to make sure I wore something with front buttons so I didn't have to flash the ward during treatment when they accessed it! I also wore a zip front polar fleece (Kathmandu) which was good as it's light, warm and comfortable! I wore comfortable shoes too, usually sneakers or slip ons. I had most of my 16 rounds of chemo in the warmer months and found the air-conditioning in the hospital was freezing..I also got a heated blanket a few times too! I got morning tea and lunch on my longer infusions brought to me my the wonderful cancer council volunteers who looked after us like royalty, I'm not used to being waited on 😉. I took my ipad / tablet with me which was a godsend as there was free WiFi in the hospital so I could stream tv shows, do emails, play games, watch a movie, book doctors appointments on line, read the newspaper etc etc...a great distraction when you need to sit for a few hours!
@Paris_24 you're on the countdown now!
Best wishes for Wednesday
I'm also a member of the grade 3 club. As others have said make sure you're comfy! I have a chemo port too so had to make sure I wore something with front buttons so I didn't have to flash the ward during treatment when they accessed it! I also wore a zip front polar fleece (Kathmandu) which was good as it's light, warm and comfortable! I wore comfortable shoes too, usually sneakers or slip ons. I had most of my 16 rounds of chemo in the warmer months and found the air-conditioning in the hospital was freezing..I also got a heated blanket a few times too! I got morning tea and lunch on my longer infusions brought to me my the wonderful cancer council volunteers who looked after us like royalty, I'm not used to being waited on 😉. I took my ipad / tablet with me which was a godsend as there was free WiFi in the hospital so I could stream tv shows, do emails, play games, watch a movie, book doctors appointments on line, read the newspaper etc etc...a great distraction when you need to sit for a few hours!
@Paris_24 you're on the countdown now!
Best wishes for Wednesday