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#7 – Round Two

12th Feb 2019 – Today I had my first ever reiki session with Chloe at Studio 3 Australia. I didn’t really know what to expect or how it all worked but was told that I just have to lie down for an hour – which I was happy to do! It was very relaxing and I came away from it with a little bit of homework to do to open up my heart chakra. Which I got working on straight away ❤ We went into Peter Mac to see my oncologist, who said that all my blood test results were good and that chemo can go ahead tomorrow with the same dose as last time. My doctor also gave me stronger pain meds to try for the next two weeks so I’ll lay off the brownies for at least a few nights to see how the new meds go!

13th Feb 2019 – So I can say I already miss the brownies because I was wide awake from 3am this morning 😒 Although I wasn’t feeling hazy today so that was nice. I was a big girl today and went to chemo on my own – much to Anthony’s disappointment. It’s not that I didn’t want him or anyone else there, but I wanted to work on my blog, maybe read a book, watch a movie or even nap! Well as it turned out, I only got to work on my blog. Ran out of time to do anything else really, which is crazy since I started at 11am and didn’t leave until 5.30pm! Anthony had sent me to chemo with some choccies and card for the nurses – telling them that I didn’t let him come today so they needed to look after me! So my nurse today, Di, gave me a big hug to give to Anthony for being such a sweetheart 💕 And I managed to make a handmade Valentine’s day card for him while I was there which he loved!

Considering I was doing chemo on my own today, I ended up having lots of visitors! A work friend’s girlfriend was in the same room as me with her lovely mum who was having chemo too. It was lovely to see Christina, but so horrible that I couldn’t even go into a bloody chemo session without knowing someone else there. Just goes to show how many people are affected by cancer. It’s fucked.

I did end up having visits from Elyse, my mum and then Anthony when he came to pick me up. I’d just finished the second dose of chemo meds when I started to feel a bit ‘foggy’, got some tingling in my fingers and my throat felt a bit funny – like something was stuck. The nurses stopped everything for about 30mins before I could finish off the last dose, just to make sure that the side effects had calmed down. The new side effects were a bit weird and I don’t think I’d prepared myself for them. In my head I had been thinking that I would react the same as last time. We had plans to go for dinner with our friends at the Sporting Globe which we did. But I hadn’t had much of an appetite all day and barely ate any dinner either. On the plus side, it was trivia night and we won!!

14th Feb 2019 – Happy Valentine’s Day! My present = feeling very emotional and not feeling like myself all day 😭 I wasn’t feeling sick or in any pain though. I had planned to go visit my family but just didn’t want to leave the couch today. My appetite was non-existent and even though I got some amazing cookies delivered from two of my friends, I couldn’t eat a full one, although it was delicious! I did manage to get out for a short walk tonight but even that took it out of me. A quick 10min walk to the corner shop took twice as long and required lots of stops along the way. It’s just a bit harder to get deep breaths in but I was out of the house so that’s a bonus and I felt better for venturing out.