31 July:- Second round of Chemotherapy.

Wednesday morning no lazing around with leisurely breakfasts as we have to be in Sir William Rous Unit by 10.15am. we arrived on time and saw the doctor fairly promptly, she said my bloods were all OK so that I could go ahead with the treatment. She has given me an additional drug to take to counter one of the side effects, bringing up wind and acid reflux, the Drug is Lansoprazole and I take one a day 30 to 60 minutes before food in the morning, lets hope that this will work for me.
Although we got past the doctor quickly today there was a delay in the clinic because of an overbooking of patients 21 instead of 15. This meant that  I was waiting until around 1 to 1.15p.m. before they started up my treatment. I feel much more relaxed with this new treatment because of the PICC line I do not need to have a Cannula attached to a vein in my arm at every visit, the part of the treatment I used to hate, big wossey that I am!
Once the treatment was going I relaxed and became engrossed with the book I was reading, Wendy was doing her knitting for the baby that Paul and Nicola are expecting 6 Feb 2014, good news eh! Next up, change of drug on the drip line, the Marsden work sheet suggested that two drugs should be given at the same time to save an hours time, fine I am all up for it. However there was a small hitch as this was the first time they had done this at SWRU,  so the first try was to use a single pump but on its own it could not handle the combined flow rate. After a bit of discussion they decided to pinch another pump and use two separate pumps and the ward sister and the head Pharmacist came out to check that this would be OK, thumbs up all round and we were off for another hour due to finish around 5.00 pm. We eventually got out out around 5.30 pm plus the pump and feeling quite good and very happy with the days events apart from the delays but hey the staff all had a hard day and managed to cope reasonably well.
Once I got home I decided to weigh my pump on the kitchen scales, 166 grams at 6.10 pm., I decided to weigh it daily and check the rate of infusion was on track .....more later.  Had a nice quiet evening before I went to bed quite re-assured that all was OK.
PS sorry that I am late with this important blog I have already been told off by cousin Ann and sister Kay  in Canada, my apologies to all who are following -- I must try harder.