Saturday 19th January 2019
“Even nice things don’t make you happy when you are tired.” — Jo Brand

Just a short one today. I struggled to sleep last night, by bedtime I was feeling a little run down and tired, a little bit achey like the onset of flu. The day after I found out I needed Chemo, I went to the pharmacy and got the flu jab to try to avoid picking it up at a time it could be dangerous, it should have just kicked in when I started treatment. It left me feeling a bit achey and crappy for 36 hours. That’s how I felt last night.

I didn’t sleep well, I developed a headache through the night and finally gave in at 4am to get some paracetamol, then sat up waiting for it to kick in. I”d been drinking a bit more water to wash the chemo through, so I was up peeing a few times too. Slept in until 8.30am, felt a little bit run down again. I went out to the supermarket with Luke, then in the afternoon we took Luke for a driving lesson we got him for Xmas.

We were stood out in the cold for an hour. I got brave and chased Parker around the car park we were observing from, the first jogging I’ve done since pre-treatment. Maybe that contributed. But, now we’re back home, and all the way into this evening, my whole body aches and I feel a little short of energy. It’s the worst I’ve felt so far in 13 days, unlucky day 13. I have read this can be a side effect of the Bleomycin so I hope it passes after a good sleep tonight, it’s got worse as the day has gone on. My temperature is normal so for now I’ll see if it passes, but if it doesn’t then I’ll call the hospital for advice.

On the plus side, this morning whilst Jayne was out shopping with Parker, I sat with Luke and got him to (willingly) watch me do my first belly injection. Forward thinking on my part, a dad has to look manly in front of his 10 year old son, so I put myself right under some pressure there. Out the needle came, and in it went straight away. Easy peasy, didn’t hurt a bit. Relief !