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Butter Side Up! |
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Ok so you’ve been dealt a pretty crap hand, it’s not fair, you don’t deserve it but what do you do? I suppose there are many ways to deal with the hard knocks, everyone is different thank goodness but until this ordeal is over every time I drop it my toast lands…. |
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John, Jane, Lydia & Miriam Widdowson (Click pic to enlarge) |
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Everyone’s treatment plan is different, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy or surgery, individually or in any combination. The range of Chemotherapy drugs is enormous, have a look at http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Treatments/Chemotherapy/Individualdrugs Whatever you’ve heard about it from friends and relations you’re advised to ignore it and listen to what the Oncologist says about you’re individual treatment. Everyone knows that Chemotherapy makes you sick - right? All I’m trying to say is if you think it’ll make you sick then it probably will. Remember, Butter Side Up!
We met the Oncologist’s Registrar, Lucy. We had ample opportunity to ask questions and she described the possible side effects of the drugs and after another quick examination I signed the consent forms. The next step is a ‘new patient’ appointment on 23 Feb 09 when I have to return the gallon container I was given full of a days worth of wee! The two foot tall carrier bag it came in suggests I have an alien disease, at least it’s plain on one side!
Basically and fortunately it’s text book treatment for me consisting of Then some recovery time and realistically it’ll be Christmas 09 before I’m fit again. |
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The nine weeks of Chemotherapy is split into three week cycles. Day one is a 12 hour infusion in Hospital followed by two tablets a day for the next 20 days. Then back to Hospital for blood tests to see that liver and kidney functions are OK and that the blood cell counts are stable enough to start the next cycle, if not I’ll have to take a break while they recover. I want to avoid that
This is my individual drug combination for Chemotherapy:
After my stay in hospital ti have the NJ Tube fitted my consultant changed the Capecitabine to 5FU or Fluorouracil. That means the combination changes from ECX to ECF
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Here are the before and after pictures, a bit dramatic I know. From a text book of course but shows the exact position of where my cancer is, quite common apparently. Be warned though, start Googling it too much and you’ll scare yourself stupid. If you have to do it at least restrict your search to the UK to avoid all those American head cases.
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