Chemotherapy round 8

26^th July, 2012

Up early, off to the hospital for the new PICC Line procedure (right arm instead of left). Thankfully, all went smoothly during that procedure.

Following that procedure, it was straight down to the cancer clinic for treatment. As usual, it’s time to say ‘bye bye’ to my baby, as she starts to drifts off from the toxic chemo treatment, it is a necessary evil & yes we have to continually remind ourselves that it works... & it kills cancer !

Susie came down & spent most of the day with us in the clinic. It’s always nice to have the added love & support around us.

I’ve attached a video, one of the four chemo treatments that Chris receives. This one is the ‘Red Devil’ slithering up into her PICC line, it is particularly nasty chemo med.

Also, Chris has started to lose patches of her hair. It’s mainly getting quite thin in areas. Currently, we are trying to decide whether it’s time to just shave it off or continue with attempts of pushing it together with hair products (in the scheme of things..not really a big deal).

Also they have added another anti nausea drug to Chris’s little bag of pills, it is called Emed so we are hoping it helps to ease the nausea that goes on for so many days after treatment.

We finally finished up around 3.00 pm after a 6 hour stint at the hospital, it’s always good to get out there, even though all the nurses are fantastic & humorous they do their best to keep Chris distracted from the awfulness of the treatment. We are all so lucky to have such great nursing staff, the nurses down at Crown Princess Mary’s really amazing people.