Day 3, Round 1, Chemotherapy
Awoke feeling totally like me after a fantstic 8 hours sleep.
Swam even more laps of the ocean pool than I did yesterday.
Again breakfast on the beach, papers, coffee, pool side chats with friend...
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I am drinking so much water I spend as much time in bathroom as I do anywhere else at the moment!
I am on AC, four rounds, one every three weeks..then over to Tamoxifen.
The anti nausea meds they have me on from the day after treatment are:
days 1 & 2 - zofran, dexamethene x 2 and emend. At night 1 x lornzepam.
days 4 & five I have to cut the zofran to a half, only 1 dexamethne and no emend..and 1 x lornzepam at night.
Fatigue i can handle..it's all the other side effects that had me scared witless.
Realise i have a long road ahead but gee it's nice to have had a gentle start. Other friends have not been so fortunate. One spent the first 24 hours vomiting constantly and ended up in hospital :-(
I want to share my esxperience so that others embarking on this may be a little less scared, that it is not always as bad as we fear.
Though hair loss - meh. Not looking forward to that one.
My eyebrows never recovered from overplucking as a 13 year old (thanks Dolly nagazine) in the 70s. If they fall out now I fear they just won't grow back!
Glad to hear the journey is not so bad for others too.
Happy healing and killing those darn C cells everyone.
x