Wow, I feel I have been so fortunate. Having just posted some thoughts on "being normal", I'm delighted to also say I am finishing my first two week chemo-cycle feeling physiologically very normal!
Yes, I know we had a false-alarm hiccup with my temperature last week, but overall side effects have been minimal and restricted to the "oh yes, everyone get's that" type - some nausea in the first few days, followed by a sensitive mouth and other digestive ailments(!) in the middle of the fortnight; and pretty much nothing in the last few days!
Such are the amazing advances in chemotherapy over the last few years - no longer is it the "blunt hammer" I remember from 20 years ago (my first second-hand experience); today it is an amazingly refined treatment: "hit the spot(s) and support the rest". Even better: having discussed my few side-effects with the (superb) nurses at the clinic, it seems there may even be remedies for my few "ailments" in the coming cycles!
We start round 2 tomorrow...
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