Chemotherapy not sure about therapy !!! First Cycle 5 more to go :)

It was an early start to the day leaving at 9am to get there for my 10:30am cycle of Chemo it was a little delayed and so we have to wait, I finally got in at 12:00 and they first gave me a tablet for nausea I had to wait 30mins for this to enter through my blood stream. Then I was hooked up to a drip and the manually injected me with a red coloured drug that will make me pee red ! 


Once this was complete I was left on the drip for nearly 2 hours the nurses were fantastic so nice explained everything and so caring, I had one nurse follow me through the procedure and she was wonderful really helpful explaining the therapy and walking me through so many things that I may feel and that I should do if I suffer any serous side effects. It freaks you out when every person that talks to you explains the importance of infection, I have needed to take my temperature a few times to know how I feel to where my temperature sits to know when I feel hot if I have a temperature to know this a little better by touch, if my temperature reaches 38 or higher I am required to seek medical attention immediately and possible hospitalisation on IV drip ! Nothing much to worry about ha? My temp is sitting about 36 so that's good :)

 Me and Matt at my first chemo cycle about to start feeling ok, no use being scared or stressed its going to happen may as well just understand this and except it and get through it as best I can :) 


Mats been fabulous taken on so much so that I don't need to stress he is my rock through all of this.

The chemo cycle itself wasn't bad really didn't feel anything at all at the time it was about 20mins after that I started to feel tired and then started to feel sick by the time I got home and felt the waves of nausea hit me the waves started at different spots. Its a little hard to describe but ill do my best, at first I had a wave of nausea come from my feet all the way up through my body this would happen every 5-10mins each time it would localise at different spots like stomach, arms lower abdomen then heart and lungs,I got a little scared at that as my heart raced and I was a little unsettled but took more nausea tablets and went to bed to rest, it took some time but ended up drifting off to sleep.
When I woke in the morning the nausea wasn't as bad a it had been but when i got up to go to the toilet I had to concentrate on each step it was almost like my muscles forgot how to move. I have been lucky and haven't vomited yet so am happy with that. 

This was me at 7:30pm last night the hardest thing at the moment above all chemo, nausea is that my son has a cold and I cant be around him and when I am I need to wear this ! So feeling sick and not being able to give my son a kiss is killing me :) Mat and I have tried to explain it as best we can and I think he understands enough to know that this is for a while and that I will get better, and will be able to give him all the hugs and kisses in the world. 




Anyway time for rest now haven't lost any hair so far.