Thank you to my many well-wishers who commiserated with me following my Weber fracture of the ankle, on top of everything else!
Amy & Carrie and their families (including dogs) sent me a very unusual but delicious First Aid Kit and Thomas & Harry sent some lovely flowers to their “Nana Avril” to cheer me up. Quite a few people have told me I’m just seeking attention!
I am happy to report that the swelling is subsiding and I’m developing amazing arm muscles hauling myself up and down the stairs of our 3-storey townhouse! I am also getting to grips with walking with crutches. Colin is getting plenty of exercise waiting on me hand and foot (pun intended) and pushing me around in the wheelchair we borrowed from the British Red Cross.
I have a follow-up appointment at the fracture clinic on 11th March to check how the bone is healing.
I know I said that I wouldn’t post about this week’s chemo session unless there was something significant to report, but a lot of people have asked me how it went, so here goes…
I am now half way through my chemotherapy treatment with just 8 more sessions to go – Fridays seem to come around much quicker than they did when I was working! I am very lucky still, not to have suffered many side effects; a few more this week than last, but nothing too awful.
Yesterday’s chemo session took a long time, 6 1/2 hours, as I had to wait for a cold cap to become available; they only have four and they’re in great demand at the moment. Also the Oncology Department was quite short-staffed, but as always everybody there was attentive and smiling.
Again, they were unable to get any blood from the Port-a-Cath so they had to use a vein in my arm for the blood sample. At least they expected that there would be the same problem with the port, so they quickly and smoothly switched to the alternative.
I have another mammogram and ultrasound scan this Thursday so of course I’m hoping the news will be good.
Next Friday I will be receiving the monoclonal antibodies (Herceptin and Perjeta) as well as the Taxol but this time it’ll be a normal dose instead of the big “loading dose” I had last time so hopefully there’ll not be a bad reaction again.
I see my Consultant Surgical Oncologist the following Wednesday 13th March and I will post a further update after that.
Thank you all for your continuing support and good wishes.