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Okay, it is now Day 10 of my last cycle of AC – that’s Doxyrubicin and Cyclophosmamide to be exact, colloquially known as the Red Devil – and, while it hasn’t been as bad as I feared it could be, it’s knocked me about a bit and taken me much longer to come up for air. At the moment, even water gives me indigestion and I have as much energy as the koala slothing in the tree outside. But I am slowly improving which is the main thing.
Lots of appointments this week, mostly to do with recovery. I’ve still got the cording happening, although I’m slowly getting more movement so I was back to the physio for laser therapy on Thursday. I’ve also had to have blood tests to see how fit I am for rehab. Yesterday, I had an ECG to check my heart (chemo can do nasty things, apparently) and, although the girl doing it kept a poker face, I wasn’t too concerned. However, my next appointment at the rehab place included testing my current fitness levels to devise a programme for me and the physio was reluctant to put me on the exercise bike because my resting heart rate was concerningly high. Now, of course, I’m worried and I won’t find out for another couple of weeks when my oncologist is back from his holidays and I have another appointment with him! Hopefully, it’s just a temporary side effect.
The blonde me is still getting comments – I feel a bit like I’m from an episode of The Avengers (the 1960s English series, that is). I’m sure I remember my friends’ Mum having hair very similar in colour and style.
I feel like I have missed so much of the school holidays with the kids as I’ve spent so much of it in bed or feeling sick but I guess there’s still a week left and at least a couple of days of sunshine in that so we’ll have to try to make the most of it.
Eleven more days until I can officially say that I made it through the AC Chemo, then it’s on to 12 weekly cycles of Paclitaxel which, while it has it’s own side effects, is supposed to be much easier to tolerate for most people. So, I can almost tick one treatment off and get ready for the next.