Went and saw Dr LM at ICON. He's recommending chemo because it's a somewhat aggressive growing cancer and chemo would probably help. Also it's not super reponsive to one of the hormones (progresterone I think). So a couple of months of "fun". Hurray! And I'll most likely lose all my hair! Hurray!
I may have gotten a bit drunk that night.
So they're going to give me steroids to take the day before, the day of, and the day after to help prevent an allergic reaction to the chemo. But the steroids could affect your sleeping so you're meant to take them in the early afternoon.
I'm also meant to do blood tests the day before each treatment so they can monitor various things.
Dr LM reckons most people probably don't do any work in the first week, go part time in the second week, and will be mostly back to normal by the third week. Then you start all over again.
There's an injection (lonquex) you take the day after treatment which is meant to boost your immune system (which will be trashed by the chemo).
They've set dates for chemo for 8 July, 29 July, 19 August and 9 September. The plan is to see him the Friday before each treatment (and get the blood tests done the Monday before each treatment).
The radiotherapy peeps called as well in the afternoon - they'll be cancelling the prep for the radiotherapy for now.
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