Chemotherapy 20 August

Will they go ahead today and give me Chemotherapy! Wendy and I got to the Sir William Rous Unit in time for our appointment with the doctor, as usual we had to wait about 10 to 15 minutes before the doctor saw us. The meeting was quite short, she read my list of bowel movements that I had prepared and noted there was no more diarrhoea during the week and that as my bloods were OK then I was free to proceed for treatment. She did also advise me that my dosage of the drugs would be reduced by 25% in order to reduce the intensity of their side effects, but overall that would not affect the efficacy of the treatment in killing off the cancer cells, so I was free to enter the clinic and find a comfortable seat.
We found a seat next to  a middle aged lady who was having the last round of her treatment and was asking people how many days is it to Christmas. Something to look forward so she could start planning her Christmas. Luckily a young man looking after his mother who was in for treatment used his I phone to find out and duly reported 126 days and 13 hours 20 minutes!! Quite a lot of men in today for cancer treatment some of them quite young and healthy looking. Luckily the noisy woman left soon still talking about Christmas and Wendy and I had a bit more room in the corner we had chosen. Not really much to say except that the treatment went very well with no complications although the male nurse took a little while to set up the double pumping system where they infuse two drugs at once over an hour to save time. We were out by around 3 pm which is by far the earliest we have left so far. After the air conditioning in the medical unit it was quite a shock to get outside and feel the heat, it being so hot we decided to go to Creams in Kingston on the way home and share an ice cream a banana with strawberries, vanilla ice cream, strawberry syrup, white chocolate flakes and covered in foamed cream. Delicious.