End of first week after chemo
OK... so I was being told I was going to feel like #$%^@ but until you are there it just isn't a reality. Day 6 and I am coming out of the druggy fog... I think.... First few days I felt fuzzy/thick-headed (what's new, I hear some say) and slightly queasy but doable. By Day 3 I felt I had a full on hangover without the party beforehand! Mind you there was no throwing up or real headache... so not as bad as a hangover really except it did last for several days. The drugs I was given to take at home were all anit-nausea and then some more! Then drugs to take for the side affects of the anit-nausea drugs... The queasiness and some indigestion were the main issues. I have also felt I needed to lie down every couple of hours and sometimes have slept like a log for maybe an hour. Night times have not always been sleep times but some drugs helped with that too. Sooo many drugs to counteract other drugs...
It has also felt a bit like all day morning sickness without the pregnancy!! So I've been nibbling often but not good food - mainly savoury, plain, soft biscuits and weak lime cordial. And the urine smell is soooo off! I was prepared with perfumes and sprays but they are sickly in the opposite way!
Haven't felt like doing anything not even reading or listening to audio books - just TV and dozing...
AND it has been absolutely wonderful to have my partner keeping me company through all this: working in the garden while I laze on the lounge, waiting on me, taking me to appointments and to see my new baby grand daughter!
