PS… top tip from patients who’d been through chemo (gathered by a nurse friend) was that Lucozade lemon/lime is good to drink when the taste buds go, and I certainly found it to be so… First week after chemo taste changes, and some of us couldn’t drink tea/coffee (hardly ANY of us could drink wine!) I recommend the Luc… Jane
I hope I still like coffee or I will get caffeine withdrawal symptoms lol!
yes… me too… but I could only tolerate it black for a day or two… and fresh mint tea (which is devastating for a self-confessed tea-pot!) Not everyone’s the same though, so you may be fine!
Hello october ladies
I had my dentist check up today and all is well…phew…one less trauma to worry about. Was anyone else advised to get a dental check up. The dentist mentioned biotene gel for the mouth i think this has been mentioned before.
Simone & Ali - Best of luck for tomorrow, thinking of you x
GiJane - thanks for the extra info, all advice and tips welcome x
Lisamarie - hope all went well today for you, let us know how you got on (when you up to it) x
Tazzie & flutterby - Good luck for 5th x
Good evening my fellow Octoberers,
Simone and Ali, good luck for tomorrow, will be thinking of you.
I have soo much to do tomorrow before I start on Friday, been at work all day today. Didnt think I would ever be sad to not go to work for a bit but it was quite emotional putting my out of office message on the email.
I am supposed to go and see Al Murray on Sunday night, bought the tickets months ago, I hope I feel up to it.
Big hugs to all
Jules
Xx
Order headscarves - Check
One thing done, now must put the iPad down and go to sleep
Night girls
Xx
Thanks for the good wishes for tomorrow. Very nervous and not looking forward to it but I guess it’s got to be done.
Jules- I know what you mean about hoping to feel up for going out. I’ve got a BBQ at a friends on Saturday and tickets to see The Feeling on Monday. Could both be wiped out! Also supposed to see Adele in November and will be really gutted if I miss that one.
Simone - will be thinking of you tomorrow morning. Mine’s not till the afternoon. Good luck and hope you feel ok after.
Ali x
Hi
Good luck to everyone with first session tomorrow (Thursday)
Alison.
X
Wishing all of you who are about to start your chemo - the very best of treatment, the fewest side effects and the fastest recovery.
Ali & Simone - wishing you well for your first sessions today. Can’t add any more tham Supertrooper said, but thinking of you xx
Hi Ladies had my first Chemo session yesterday and all went well, I have a picc line as I have said and never felt a thing, no tingles in bum checks no coldness when it went in nothing. I did get a weird no horrid taste in my mouth but the pears drops and cola cubes my kids had brought me served me well.
I ate a light lunch and was starving so even managed to eat a sandwich during chemo and drank for england, they told me the more I drank the faster it would go through me and reduce the effect my hubby brought me home some thing called good stuff, cranberry and lime it was fantastic, I even poured it in a wine glass and told myself it was my reward.
Another thing they offered at my hospital was reflexology apparently it helps the Chemo enter the body quicker and absorb, I don’t know about all that but it was very relaxing and I did enjoy.
So far so good, apart from bright red wee wee which has also most gone and the odd hot flush I feel so far fine, I am up washed and dressed and hoping for a relaxing day at home, rest whilst you can even if you don’t need to they told me it will set you up better for when you do.
Ginger biscuits, actually ginger everything on standby and having the odd bite even if I don’t feel I need or want it and as I said so far I feel fine.
Hope this helps some of you starting today, thinking of you all and very best of luck. Us girls stronger than we know.
Lisa xx
Hi Girls,
Hope you don’t mind me butting in from Sept but I only started FEC on Monday, so I too am a straddler!
I wish everyone luck who’s starting soon - my advice is be prepared for a big hangover with no booze :(( and take your ice lollys and pops with you - my mouth is fine so far (touch wood!).
I had an emotional day yesterday but I’m feeling much better today - listen to your bodies and remember that there are no rules, no two people are exactly the same!
Take care, hugs to all
Axx
Jules - best of luck for tomorrow (sorry i missed u out before, missed that you were starting this week too)
Lisamarie & Annie - thanks for posting about your first FEC, nice to hear that you are not suffering too badly, helps to take a little of the fear away.
Ali & Simone - thinking of you x
Wishing all you October (and September) girls the very best. I have been reading your posts with interest as I was diagnosed around about the same time 5th August. If only one of my nodes hadn’t contained tiny cells I think I would have been on the chemo treadmill with you. Now I face another op before I can get cracking with it. It is heartening to hear that some of you haven’t suffered too badly with SE’s. I am more worried about chemo than the op.
Big hugs to you all and Lisa-Marie, cheers.
Barbara x
Hi Barbara
I am also more worries about the chemo than i was about the op but have read some very encouraging things which has helped to take a bit of the fear away, im still anxious about it but ready to face it more than i was.
Hope op goes well and you can get cracking soon with little SE’s xx
Had Flu jab today, was a doddle. Now I am focussed on my first chemo session tommorrow afternoon.
My chemo nurse came to see me today. It was great to get all my questions answered. She is referring me to get an NHS wig, preferable to a double the cost one from the other retail outlets available!. I am ordering some hats, scarfs and bandanas from anabandana website tonight and all my chemo shopping is done, so I am feeling quite virtuous. I have also received my free prescription card, only took about a week to arrive.
I am now feeling strangely calm about having the chemotherapy now; that may change though when I walk through the hosptial doors!
Dizzycloud - glad you are all organised and calm. Best of luck for tomorrow, will be thinking of you x
Dizzycloud - best of luck for tomorrow afternoon. I’m impressed how organised you are. I haven’t ordered any scarves yet (will sort that tomorrow) but have an appointment to get my hair cut tomorrow afternoon.
Had my first FEC today and it was ok. Daunting to start but all went smoothly. Feel ok so far but taking it easy as I know it’s early days.
Good luck to anyone else having treatment tomorrow.
Ali x
Ali, glad to hear your first session went ok. Thanks to everyone for good wishes. Havn’t managed to order scarves yet as planned as my friend rang me and was on the phone for almost two hours, but it was nice catching up!
Hi
Ali - glad to hear FEC 1 went ok for you, take it easy x
Dizzycloud - 2 hours! you lil chatterbox hehe x