Chemotherapy during covid

Hi I'm getting chemo for BC paclitaxel and Herceptin/ Perjeta . I've just had covid and I'm not convinced I'm totally over it but my chemo is going ahead as I've missed a few weeks for different reasons. Has anyone else had experience of getting chemo just after or during covid and how did it feel? A bit scared but at the same time I know I need to get cracking with the chemo. Had 5 days of psxlovid antivirals And felt much better but have felt worse since it stopped - mainly very sore throat . 
 

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  • She finished it a few weeks ago. She's 2 weeks out from her op.

    Weirdly, she found covid to be a welcome break. She said it felt a lot better than the chemo did. We were all kinda lucky. I had a dry right nostril for a day, and had my wife not been rushed to hospital with a blazing temp and subsequently tested positive, I would never have even thought to test myself. I assumed it was the heating blaring that had dried my nose. She was a wee bit breathless for the first day (we didn't even think covid), then she woke up with a raging temp. The next day she felt normalish. She got the antibodies via iv.

    Covid is really strange, huh? Someone like me wouldn't even have realised i had had it, whilst others get floored with it. Like i said, even the wife was fine barring the high temp for a day.

    Just listen to your nurses and doctor and you will be fine. I think there's a lot of data around now telling them it's safe to administer chemo in recently recovered people.