Day 5 post chemo

Day 5 - Morphine is my friend

After 48 hours of pain in my muscles and in organs that have a muscle, it was time to do something about it.  Now who to call? This is where private is alittle easier, you know who to call.

We decided To drop the kids off to mother inlaws and I would call the cancer centre on the way, since they were responsible for the way I was. But they don't start until 8:30 am so we had arrived by the time they were open, so decided just to show up there. Well we caused all sorts of chaos going against protocol!! You are supposed to phone first so they can be prepared.....okay they never told us that. So finally Malcolm took my symptoms in the waiting room for all to hear.

Anyway eventually once all in their world was 'righted' to normal and they went about dealing with me, the rebel that I was.

I had another appointment with an oncologist called Jo, she was lovely and cleared up some questions we had on the MRI.  She confirmed that the lymph nodes impacted are showing normal cell structure, I'm not sure if they need a biopsy to really confirm that but that is good news. Not having surgery first and knowing they were sitting there with abnormal cells and that it could spread through the lymph system while I'm having chemo was scary. 

Since having endone yesterday I have started to feel almost normal - yay! Very sleepy but it is stopping all the muscle aches.

I have to thank John for looking after me so well. He has been a strength through this process, while the kids make their concerns known from time to time. Taking them to the royal Melbourne show on Monday to have some fun and frivolity to get their minds off me moping around from bed to couch and back to bed. Andrés said he will serve me dinner in bed when they get back and Alexander made sure I had everything I needed...when they got back alexander said there was something missing at the Show - me.....

Expecting tomorrow will be even more normal. :)