Final reinforcements deployed

Well, there we go.  It’s done.  It seems like no time at all since I wrote about the first session.

My nurse today was Sharon, she is a little older than me but you wouldn’t have known. They all look so young, it must be a reward from nature for doing such an amazing job!  Sharon was great, she is Norfolk born and trained in Norwich.

My veins did not behave, it took two attempts to get into a vein that would work but once we were in (with a smaller needle) the blood test was good so we could get it over and done with 🙂

Sharon talked with me about my diagnosis about the treatment I have been having. She said that the FEC combination of drugs is particularly hard on the whole body so I really have been lucky with my side effects.  We also talked about how good the other blood tests have been.  I know that my liver can cope with the number and size of tumours in there because I was ‘well’ before we discovered them!  Sharon showed me that the blood tests show that even with being bombarded with all these chemicals, my liver performance has been consistently good.

All these signs bode well for the future and we are feeling really positive so we decided to celebrate by going out for lunch!  Because of the later start time and the smaller needle which made the flow slower it was just after midday when we finished. It has been a miserable day, cool and rainy but we headed into the city and has a celebratory lunch.

This is my celebration face!

We managed to get one more photo with a dragon in the rain!

The nausea has kicked in as have the sausage arms but we know we can deal with it and it will all be over soon.

Thank you all once again for all your support.

Talk to you soon

Lots of love Mand xxx