Waiting to feel well again....

Hi Louisa

I know how you feel that your treatment is over and really want to start feeling on top of it all again.

I also am now 7 weeks post chemo and in middle of radiotherapy and I can say I only just starting to feel okay.  I am walking to & fro from radiotherapy appts etc. so on some days I can walk 80 mins which is split up.  It has made a difference to how I am feeling BUT!!! if I not up to it I won't do it.  I trying to listen to my body (yes that body that let me down) and do what I can when I can.  It is so hard and unfortunately patience is needed.

Osteo is not nice but again managable once you know how.  I think it is weight bearing exercises that is good for osteo??.  My sister has R.A. & O.A. diagnosed when she was 35 and she is now 64 but it has never held her back from the majority of things she wants to do.  I think the combination of her age and abusing her body over the years is finally starting to take its toll but she has been amazing. 

My hair started to sprout (lol) before I finished my last cycle of the horrid Docetaxel - the chemo that really knocked me about.  It is very wispy with a mix of white and dark hair coming through.  I am getting mine shaved again though (not giving mine a chance to fall out again hee hee) so it can grow through minus the chemo that may still be lurking in my system.  If my hair grows back how it was it needs all the help it can get. I can notice it growing week by week.

I do understand what you mean about the longer you are on this journey the more things go wrong, one of my things being lymphodeama plus quite a few others.  You do ask youself when it is all going to end, I agree.

Good luck, hope you get on to a good specialist for your osteo and you get beautiful hair sprouting soon.

Mich xoxo