'quick' visit to Hospital
15:00 Thursday 16th
In the chemo day unit for a change of dressing for the PICC line in my arm.
Hopefully a short 30 minute visit, next week I'll be here every day and for the following 5 weeks.
First Chemo Session
Yesterday saw my first chemo session. My first appointment was at 09:00 so given the usual mess that is the M11 I left at 07:10 and arrived at the North Mid at 08:15. Parking, thankfully, wasn't an issue. The first appointment was with speech therapy as later in the radio treatment I will get a sore throat, probably ulcers and some muscle issues so I have a number of neck and throat related exercises to start now that should benefit me later on. Chemo consisted of me pretty much sat in chair from 10:30 until about 15:30 whilst they dripped about 3.5 litres of fluids into me, 3l of that were salts, 0.5l was the actual chemo drug. After that I was fitted with a pump which constantly slow feeds about 250mm of a second drug into me over 4 days, so it has to stay attached. There are some logistical problems with that, mostly around getting dressed and sleeping. As I normally sleep on my left side I have employed the standard 'pull out the second draw of the bedside cabin...
How long is each session when you go in every day ?
ReplyDeleteI think less than an hour on only radiotherapy days (Mo, Tu, Th & Fr) and pretty much an all dayer on Weds as it includes chemo too
DeleteGood luck Mike. Make sure you have some decent music to listen to....
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