Day 9 & 10, Round 1, Chemotherapy

Thanks for loving my little reports. I think it's important to share as much of the goood as possible when there is so much fear attached to chemotherapy. As I read elsewhere on here - we need to think of it as a good thing, helping us get better.

Happy to report on day 9 round 2, all has beren trotting along much as for round one, I've had just the one day of feeling off -- two days ago - and I am now looking seriously like a buddhist monk gone wrong, with my number 2 a number 0 in some spors and a number 1 in others.

Are you doing the wig thing? I am and haven't found it that hard to get used to (again so often read of people buying them and not wearing them). I just enjoy the fact I can get out and about in the world without being the suibject of couriosity/pity/etc. I've been very open with my community and friends with this, so enough already with having to constantly be treated as Someoine With Cancer.

Sounds like we share a love of good food and you are definiitely in the place for it. My stomping ground with Surry Hills thrown in for good measure.

I actually ditched alcohol on diagnosis -- trust me a huge thing as I love my wine and champagne!! I'm saving it as something to enjoy on special occasions. So I enjoyed matched wines with a dinner out the night before my first chemo; half a bottle of Veuve on New Years Eve; a cider on the day I dealt with hair loss and donning a wig (and then realised I had not enjoyed it..perhaps I need to stick to the french stuff ;-) ).

 The advice is to not have more than 1-2 standard drinks a weelk because it increases the risk or recurrence, so my  view is why bother with just the one. They haven;t worked out how alcohol and breast cancer are linked yet -- they just know that it is :-(. So in the interests of giving my all to do what I can to stay healthy, I now drink very rarely (8 standard drinks in the past three and a half months -- definitely a first by me!), and once chemo is ove,r a concerted effort to get my body weight back to the lower end, as this is another no no for staying cancer free (bellieve this has something to do with the fact that our fat cells produce oestregen as well as our ovaries, so being lean, means fewer oestrgens floating around to feed my particular type of BC).

So winter like out there. Perfect day to find a great warming meal in one of Paddo's great pubs -- especially if they have sense to fire up up the fireplace. February I know, but it is only 15 degrees!

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