Thursday 7th February 2019
“Little by little, one travels far” — J. R. R. Tolkien

There’s not a lot to say about today that was really any different to Tuesday and Wednesday, other than I worked from home, not the office. I slept the same, same routine, same symptoms. Just the half hour afternoon/evening nap today.

The fantastic thing about today though, is that I’m exactly half way through Cycle 2, and half way through the 9 weeks !! It’s a great psychological milestone. Even better, I’ve had more than 50% of the Chemo treatments, 8 planned days in hospital done, with 7 to go, the next one being tomorrow and the last one on 8th March.

It’s been a funny old journey so far, but I know what to expect for the remaining 4 weeks. Hitting a milestone makes you reflect a little. Something I’ve not often thought about often or mentioned so far, is that it’s all for a reason, kill the cancer. I’ve been very focussed so far on getting this 9 weeks of treatment out of the way and getting back to normal. Hopefully it’s doing it’s job, and come my next CT Scan, it’s some really good news. That’s the aim of the game.

I can’t really influence it other than to navigate this treatment as best I can. Back at it tomorrow, 8.40am Bloods, 9.40am Doctor consult, 1.30pm in the chemo chair again for the Friday shot of Bleomycin. I’m keen to see the Dr tomorrow and particularly chat about the fuzzy hearing. I don’t want “getting back to normal” to include being half deaf !