Over What brilliant news! Well done. The good news might give you a bit more strength to keep on fighting through the awful chemotherapy.
Mrs Shrek Glad Mr Shrek had his chemo this week - and I seem to be learning that the medics don't remove something if they think it will cause the treatment to be less effective. I do know someone who had the same sort of numbness in his fingers and toes following treatment and a year later it is all going back to normal. I hope your week isn't too awful - are you still working full time?
Mr Daisy had his chemo as planned on Tuesday, but a different combination of drugs this time. One of them has been changed for a more up to date and apparently slightly more effective drug this time around. He also had a 2 unit blood transfusion yesterday because his Hb level had dropped down to 9.3 again. They mentioned internal bleeding again, but Mr Daisy has no sign of it - and as he was sick every morning last week I think we would have seen blood in the vomit at the very least.
Mr Daisy has gone to work today - and seems to be reasonably OK. I am now panicing that the chemo isn't working for him because he is fighting so hard to be OK. Realistically, he IS being affected by it, I can see it in lots of ways, but I worry that he's not as poorly as Mr Shrek and Over. Sounds ridiculous when I write it down.
The hardest thing to manage at the moment is that Mr Daisy can't 'do' cold. The side effect of the drug is that it makes muscles go into spasm - so he can't breathe cold air or drink/eat anything cold because it will cause a laryngial spasm and make him feel like he's having a bad asthma attack and he can't touch anything cold because it'll make all his hand muscles spasm and lock up. He went to work looking like bank robber this morning! Itll pass apparently.
I have been fascinated to watch the power of the mind this last week - although Mr Daisy said and honestly believed that he was OK about missing chemo last week, underneath it all, he was actually very, very frightened and it showed in his health; he felt that the tumour was growing, that the cough he had meant the cancer had spread to his lungs, that the tumour was pressing on his tummy and stopping him from eating anything or bending over. I was having to do up his shoes because he felt it so keenly.
Now he has had treatment, he is almost euphoric. And completely changed. His appetite is back to being good, he hasn't been sick at all, he isn't coughing and is doing up his own shoes without even thinking about it.
We must harness that power and use it for positive thought and visualisation. It has to make a difference.