Update 22nd Feb

Today is our 30th Wedding Anniversary.  And I had to call an ambulance for Alan.  Won’t go into to gory details and fortunately they decided it was safe to leave him under my supervision but not the start to the day I had expected and have to admit I am feeling a bit drained now

I have now started on the precautionary antibiotics, with the longest list of scary side effects I have ever seen, none of which seem to be manifesting themselves so far.  Otherwise I have been feeling fine apart from last Wednesday when I crashed out in the afternoon and then slept for 12 hours that night. I had been for a walk in the morning and struggled towards the end so am restricting myself to being like a teddy bear (round and round the garden) for the time being.

15/2 Quick update

 Everything went swimming well on Friday.  No after effects that I could discern and slept through the night inspite of steroids.  Full of beans on Saturday, probably overdid it as went for a walk and did two miles and my aches and pains didn’t trouble me at all (steroids again).  Have slept well every night and wake before alarm (admittedly set for 9) and have been pacing myself a bit more.  Steroids now finished and five days of injections started.  Appetite good. Back a bit dodgy but gentle walk should help if the weather obliges 

Chemo #1

 My day started with a high stress incident! Home Instead rang about 10 minutes before I was due to leave to say the carer was off sick.  Did I want them to find someone else? Well yes I did.  I decided I couldn’t do anything about it so left it to them as I know they will, as a last resort, send someone from the office who has previously been a carer. The chemo was fine. One little wobbly, I suddenly got a pain in my chest and went very red, but it’s likely that was the steroids as it didn’t happen again. I read some, watched a film on Netflix, ate my lunch and had a snooze and was home by 3.30. This evening I feel fine and i have eaten a substantial meal which tasted as it should, but we shall see what happens over the next few days. By the way, I don't know why this looks like this but I'm too tired now to work it out

A positive view

 As so many people have been kind enough to ask me how I am getting on, I thought it might be a good idea to return to this blog and then I won’t have to keep repeating myself!  Noticing the original title I will try to keep as positive as possible although I know you will forgive me if I have a bit of a wobble now and then

So, this Friday I embark upon the road that so many others have travelled before me, that of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.  The chemo will be once every third Friday for either 4 or 6 cycles, then I have a four week gap and then 5 weeks Monday to Friday radio therapy plus two or three different ones, possibly, it depends. It was a bit of a shock, as originally the surgeon had said he thought the cancer was contained, but after the hysterectomy he found there were already some nasties in the lymph nodes they took for biopsy

I feel very calm at the moment,  lots of people are praying for me, which most of you will know means a great deal to me.  Alan needs your prayers too, that he will stay calm about it and that I will be able to look after him properly.  We have had a carer coming in for four hours on a Friday afternoon for some time, which allowed me to go out and not be clock watching.  I also had someone come in to give him his shower while my hysterectomy healed.  That’s being extended now so I will have someone here for an hour on a Tuesday and a Thursday morning.  My cleaner comes for two hours on a Monday morning and I have friends who will come and sit with Alan on the chemo mornings until the carer arrives.

Not much else to say yet, I will report back once I find out how the first treatment affects me. 

Love to all xx