Tuesday 13th November

Tuesday 13^th November

Started the day with a great Zumba class at Maufant, lots of jumping, whooping, and jigging around to loud music- not everyone’s cup of tea, but I LOVE it!

With the sun shining and it being low tide I took Jessie down to Archirondel for a lunchtime walk, she loved it, digging holes and chasing sea gulls and Brent geese round and round!

I had a late lunch, and then employed various delaying tactics so I ended up driving in late for my chemo, no surprises there then!

I ran into Oncology (no I didn’t sprint up seven flights, I used the lift!) to see nurse KB foot tapping waiting for my arrival- fortunately she wasn’t really cross and didn’t need to warm up the veins in my hand for the needles! We tried the left hand (I had planned to use time to write blog) but my vein wasn’t having it, and went into a bit of a spasm- so did my head when I heard what KB said next……Consequently the right hand had to be used and whilst she was sorting it out, Dr H came and explained very clearly (He wrote it down for me!) all about my on-going chemo plan.

And so here it is from April when I started- I am now in Cycle 7......

Cycle 1 (Carbo/plat and taxel) 3 weekly- every 21 days

Cycle 2 (carbo/plat and taxel) 3 weekly- every 21 days

Cycle 3 (carbo/plat and taxel) 3 weekly –every 21 days

CT scan

Cycle 4 (carbo/plat and taxel) 3 weekly- every 21 days

Delay of approx  50 days

Cycle 5 (carbo/plat/tax) weekly Every 28days

Cycle 6 (carbo/plat/taxel) weekly – d1(1 week only then no more)

CT scan

Cycle 7 (carb/plat) weekly d1,d8,d15,- every 28days

Cycle 8 (carb/plat) weekly d1,d8,d15, every 28days

CT scan

·         d = day

·         “Platinum is the mainstay line of drug against Ovarian cancer

So all in all I had a fairly major shock today as I really thought that I was only having 2 more ‘bits’ of chemo , not two complete cycles, naïve yes, this takes me right through until after Christmas………

I recently read an article in a newspaper about Cancer and in it was a comment from Shelia Hughes describing her breast cancer as ‘like going on a journey to a strange country. You don’t know if you’re going to survive the journey; you’ve got no map; you’ve got no compass; and you’ve got to drag your family along with you”. 

I think that pretty well sums it up, don’t you?

This is me with my mate KH, and I'll be doing lots more celebrating over Christmas!

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson