Hiya
Please don't try to worry too much.  I finished my last chemo last Thursday and it's really not as bad as you think.  I won't prentend it's easy because it's not but I expected to be dying in bed after my 1st lot but I wasn't. I have managed to work part time in between each session (chemo Thursday, off Thurs/Fri and following week then back) it has done me a world of good just feeling as normal as I can.  I start radiotherapy 10/12/15 and hope to work around that too.  I am lucky working in a finance office for an organisation that supplies educational resources so I do not need to come into direct contact with anyone other than my colleagues. I have 1 beautiful 2 year old grandaughter who I have not kept away from at all even though she came back from a Mediterranean cruise having been exposed to chickenpox (she didn't get it) anf her dad (my son in law) has just recovered from shingles.  She is the one thing that has kept me going in all this, I'm just her Mamma, she doesn't know I've been poorly, she is my world and no-one can tell me not to see her.

Having said that, I haven't taken her to local play groups like I would have done previously, but otherwise I've taken my responsiblity as a grandma business as usual!!!

The side effects afedct everyone differently.  I haven't been sick at all but felt it with the 1st 3 doses, I have been very tired and my legs and hips feel like lead with the last 3.  I used the cold cap so still have some hair - it's not exactly my crowning glory but I'm not bald and can get away with wearing a scarf like a headband.

As for why you? Why indeed, I have asked myself so many times but then I think rather me than my 2 daughters or my grandaughter then I just get another glass of wine lol! 2015 has been a bit of a write off as far as I'm concerned, my radiotherapy starts 10/12/15 so should be done by the end of December. Roll on 2016!!

Hang on in there, it helps to rant on this website, we're all in this together even though you may feel very alone at times like me.  My so called best friend has been unable to talk to me since my diagnosis way back in April and that hurt alot but hey, onwards and upwards now.  It doesn't seem 2 minutes since I learned I had the dreaded c-word but the end of my treatment is in sight now, it's gone really fast looking back.

Take care and good luck, I'm sure you will be fine (says me who was led into my 1st chemo weeping in fear!!!)

Tracey xx

 

Hiya
Please don't try to worry too much.  I finished my last chemo last Thursday and it's really not as bad as you think.  I won't prentend it's easy because it's not but I expected to be dying in bed after my 1st lot but I wasn't. I have managed to work part time in between each session (chemo Thursday, off Thurs/Fri and following week then back) it has done me a world of good just feeling as normal as I can.  I start radiotherapy 10/12/15 and hope to work around that too.  I am lucky working in a finance office for an organisation that supplies educational resources so I do not need to come into direct contact with anyone other than my colleagues. I have 1 beautiful 2 year old grandaughter who I have not kept away from at all even though she came back from a Mediterranean cruise having been exposed to chickenpox (she didn't get it) anf her dad (my son in law) has just recovered from shingles.  She is the one thing that has kept me going in all this, I'm just her Mamma, she doesn't know I've been poorly, she is my world and no-one can tell me not to see her.

Having said that, I haven't taken her to local play groups like I would have done previously, but otherwise I've taken my responsiblity as a grandma business as usual!!!

The side effects afedct everyone differently.  I haven't been sick at all but felt it with the 1st 3 doses, I have been very tired and my legs and hips feel like lead with the last 3.  I used the cold cap so still have some hair - it's not exactly my crowning glory but I'm not bald and can get away with wearing a scarf like a headband.

As for why you? Why indeed, I have asked myself so many times but then I think rather me than my 2 daughters or my grandaughter then I just get another glass of wine lol! 2015 has been a bit of a write off as far as I'm concerned, my radiotherapy starts 10/12/15 so should be done by the end of December. Roll on 2016!!

Hang on in there, it helps to rant on this website, we're all in this together even though you may feel very alone at times like me.  My so called best friend has been unable to talk to me since my diagnosis way back in April and that hurt alot but hey, onwards and upwards now.  It doesn't seem 2 minutes since I learned I had the dreaded c-word but the end of my treatment is in sight now, it's gone really fast looking back.

Take care and good luck, I'm sure you will be fine (says me who was led into my 1st chemo weeping in fear!!!)

Tracey xx