Chemotherapy

Fight,fight, fight Wrathx.

Im particularly interested to hear your updates,and im love that positive spin on a seemingly hellish experience.

I send you light and positivity!
 
Best of luck! Stay strong and know that everyone on mybb is wishing you well.

Take Care,
 
Week 3 is going well, I've learned to live with the side-effects now, I have adapted to feeling constantly crappy, I tell you, humans can take a lot of punishment, we are fragile yet also very hardy.

My severe constipation was solved, but not after I tried an enema (for the first time in my life), and it did not work, I tried a suppository, it did not work, eventually I tried another suppository and it worked, and I was very grateful lol
- Now I'm eating baked beans and all bran flakes and fruits, to prevent another corkage.

The chemo makes me very high (like very good weed would), and I am slightly off balance, my eyes chronically light sensitive and out of focus.

I finish with this daily chemo next Friday, I am becoming very excited about that.

I look forward to being able to taste food again and a good champagne, and not feeling like a bloated barrel of saline solution :D


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Oh, I have a port in my arm. I have been thinking about that with regards to future technology, it's not a big deal, think its going to be a breeze going the cyborgian way :p

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Thanks for all the support :)
 
Your positivity is just wonderful.

That, plus the wonder of technology is sure to get you to your next chapter, I've no doubt.
 
Ow that port thingy looks sore. Hugz.
Why did they put it there W?
 
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Ow that port thingy looks sore. Hugz.
Why did they put it there W?
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Every day I plug in to my chemo drip via the port, imagine if they had to stick me every day, my arm already looks like a druggies, because every Friday I have to test my blood too, so I have plenty of bruises on both arms.

I'm one of the youngest patients at chemo, and the only person on IntronA, and the only fool who goes in every day from 12-5, the other patients come in once a month or once a week for chemo.

One of the nurses read a sf short story of mine, then she wanted to know: what does 'extraterrestrial' mean.. I almost keeled over :erm:

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thanks demon angel
 
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Ow! When i went for a few days blood tests i was made full of holes, so the port makes good sense. Was wondering about the physical location? Must be the most stable point for movement?
 
I'm really happy to hear that everything's going well for you wrathex! That's wonderful news! Only one more week of everyday chemo... You're kicking this monster right in the bawls! :D

Keep your chin up and you'll be just fine... :)
 
@wrathex: For the constipation try munching a steady diet of dried fruits (those blue safari packs). Specifically the prunes.

Don't blame me if it works too well though...
 
Find the cheapest outlet for prunes and stew up a week's worth with a teabag for flavour. Store in the fridge and have three a day, and try up your water intake at the same time, and you should be able to cut out all the other stuff quite quickly.. J
 
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Find the cheapest outlet for prunes and stew up a week's worth with a teabag for flavour. Store in the fridge and have three a day, and try up your water intake at the same time, and you should be able to cut out all the other stuff quite quickly.. J
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Good advice, just take it slowly, in case it "works too well" :D

Any updates, wrathy?
 
The smell of medical alcohol, clear tubing, drips, the incredible sharp and deep pain when the port needle is inserted, the bleeping of the drip rate monitors, two very efficient nurses and two sisters, a young male chemist who mixes the chemo solutions freshly after the patient arrives for chemo treatment, two oncologists, 4 radiologists, a psychologist, lounges, large comfortable chairs and soothing softly played airport music.

Afternoons of reading my kindle and listening to music on my ipod, and most often sleeping to hearts content to the envy of the other patients.

Ten weeks ago I had surgery, then 5 weeks of daily radiation, then 4 weeks of daily chemo - finished today :D :) :) :)

From Monday I start with self-injection chemo, (via medical pen as used by diabetics) 3 times a week for the next year, with frequent bloodwork and monthly check-ups.

Both my arms are bruised from having the ports into my veins for such extended times, this morning we had to relocate my port, I formed a clot, on a previous occasion my arm swelled to twice the size, when the port leaked and spilled the saline solution into my arm itself instead of the vein lol - it was frightening at the time.

Now the port is out and my wrists can heal. My treatment has gone well.

My chemo treatment has entailed stimulating my auto-immune system, eg: purposely waking up (genetically engineered and task specific IntronA chemo) anti-cancer soldiers and forcing them to be alert and hunt invaders - in my case melanome cancer stage 3 invaders - resident in my lymph system - sneaky buggers, resilient, capable of hiding and goes into lurk mode and then spawns somewhere else predictably in around 12 - 14 months from now.

So I look very forward to this summer :p

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Words almost fail me in admiration of your attitude during this testing time. Let no person ever accuse you of being weak, o' seksie heksie!


PS. When can we send the bubbly?
 
wrathex said:
The smell of medical alcohol, clear tubing, drips, the incredible sharp and deep pain when the port needle is inserted, the bleeping of the drip rate monitors, two very efficient nurses and two sisters, a young male chemist who mixes the chemo solutions freshly after the patient arrives for chemo treatment, two oncologists, 4 radiologists, a psychologist, lounges, large comfortable chairs and soothing softly played airport music.

Afternoons of reading my kindle and listening to music on my ipod, and most often sleeping to hearts content to the envy of the other patients.

Ten weeks ago I had surgery, then 5 weeks of daily radiation, then 4 weeks of daily chemo - finished today :D :) :) :)

From Monday I start with self-injection chemo, (via medical pen as used by diabetics) 3 times a week for the next year, with frequent bloodwork and monthly check-ups.

Both my arms are bruised from having the ports into my veins for such extended times, this morning we had to relocate my port, I formed a clot, on a previous occasion my arm swelled to twice the size, when the port leaked and spilled the saline solution into my arm itself instead of the vein lol - it was frightening at the time.

Now the port is out and my wrists can heal. My treatment has gone well.

My chemo treatment has entailed stimulating my auto-immune system, eg: purposely waking up (genetically engineered and task specific IntronA chemo) anti-cancer soldiers and forcing them to be alert and hunt invaders - in my case melanome cancer stage 3 invaders - resident in my lymph system - sneaky buggers, resilient, capable of hiding and goes into lurk mode and then spawns somewhere else predictably in around 12 - 14 months from now.

So I look very forward to this summer :p

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I think you have earned yourself a holiday.

Perhaps a trip to the spa?

Glad to see you have emerged victorious and have broken the back of that awfully draining treatment.
 
wrathex said:
The smell of medical alcohol, clear tubing, drips, the incredible sharp and deep pain when the port needle is inserted, the bleeping of the drip rate monitors, two very efficient nurses and two sisters, a young male chemist who mixes the chemo solutions freshly after the patient arrives for chemo treatment, two oncologists, 4 radiologists, a psychologist, lounges, large comfortable chairs and soothing softly played airport music.

Afternoons of reading my kindle and listening to music on my ipod, and most often sleeping to hearts content to the envy of the other patients.

Ten weeks ago I had surgery, then 5 weeks of daily radiation, then 4 weeks of daily chemo - finished today :D :) :) :)

From Monday I start with self-injection chemo, (via medical pen as used by diabetics) 3 times a week for the next year, with frequent bloodwork and monthly check-ups.

Both my arms are bruised from having the ports into my veins for such extended times, this morning we had to relocate my port, I formed a clot, on a previous occasion my arm swelled to twice the size, when the port leaked and spilled the saline solution into my arm itself instead of the vein lol - it was frightening at the time.

Now the port is out and my wrists can heal. My treatment has gone well.

My chemo treatment has entailed stimulating my auto-immune system, eg: purposely waking up (genetically engineered and task specific IntronA chemo) anti-cancer soldiers and forcing them to be alert and hunt invaders - in my case melanome cancer stage 3 invaders - resident in my lymph system - sneaky buggers, resilient, capable of hiding and goes into lurk mode and then spawns somewhere else predictably in around 12 - 14 months from now.

So I look very forward to this summer :p

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:) Go wrathex!
 
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