A Wee Bit Better

Overall I am doing somewhat better than the first round of chemo, partly because I have a better idea of what is going on, plus the 5FU infusion pump emptied in time at around midday on Friday, so I am a day further along than last time.

So how did it go:

• Wednesday, morning at hospital getting the chemo, home about 1:00 PM, feeling fine, could have gone back to work at that stage, but started to feel ill later in the afternoon.  Head was OK, able to do some work
• Thursday, progressively felt more ill.  Later in the afternoon I really struggled to focus
• Friday, quite ill, brain really mush, found that emails I had sent Thursday afternoon were largely rubbish (more than usual).  Felt bloated and near nauseous through Friday night
• Saturday, pretty much bottomed out, started to move around and starting to think ahead by late afternoon.  Highlight of the day was Crusaders beating the Blues
• Sunday, really feeling better, constipation resolved (best not to go into that), started to get some stuff done at home, but quite weak and frequent rests.

Reading the paper, there is quite a bit of attention to colon cancer at the moment, one person going though the same performance commented "In the days following each session of chemotherapy, it feels as if life is draining out of here".  I can relate to that.  There are times when I wonder if I really have what it takes to get through 6 months of this, but within a day or two I will be back to a fairly positive frame of mind, it must be hard on Teresa though.

I tried to change my Tuesday appointment with the oncologist to another day, it really causes a clash with work.  However this was not practical, and I found that I will be seeing a registrar on Tuesday as my oncologist is away for the week.  That is a pity as I had hoped to go into some detail of the prognosis and next steps.