2nd Chemo Cycle

Tuesday, 20th July, 2nd bout of Chemotherapy.

Just as a round up of how the first cycle went here's some bullet points of the good and bad things I experienced.
- Days 2,3 and 4 felt really nauseus had to eat constantly
- Day 5 - Poppy's 2nd birthday party, ate my body weight in crisps and dips
- Day 7 - Nasty, painful acne like break out on face - predominantly chin(s)
- Day 8 - got medicated moisturiser for skin
- Day 14 - skin calming down and not sore anymore
- Napping most afternoons while Amber sleeps
- Days 7-21 apart from skin issues felt pretty damn normal thank you very much.

2nd Cycle
- Day 1 - took medication as prescribed, felt a bit fragile but not too sicky
- Day 2 - felt wiped out, didn't feel up to doing very much, slept for about an hour at 4 then went to bed at 8.30pm for 11 hours
- Day 3 - Oh my God I feel like death warmed up, had to go to hospital for routine Physio appointment but didn't feel well enough even to drive myself the 5 minute car journey to the hospital. Went up to Forster Suite (the Chemo ward) while I was at the hospital just to check what I was feeling was normal, they checked my BP and heart and all was fine, they just told me to rest.
Slept for an hour when I got home, then had my sister come and be with Amber so I could rest some more. Felt the worst I have ever felt since being diagnosed, couldn't get comfortable sitting, standing, lying down, too hot, too cold. Horrible.
- Day 4 - Had to get out of the house, went on a family day trip to Woburn Safari Park. Best thing we could have done, had an amazing day, don't know if I would have been feeling any better if I'd just been at home anyway but regardless I felt a million percent better than the day before.
- Day 5 - Tea party at the In-laws - ate my body weight in prawn sandwiches, cakes and sugary treats (I think day five could be my favourite day!)
- Night 5 - woke at 11pm with sharp pain in stomach, just made to toilet - too many prawn sandwiches :(
- Day 6 - Feeling back to normal again
- Evening 6 - Back on toilet, think I'm going to actually die - really shouldn't have eaten so many prawn sandwiches. Phoned chemo emergency helpline incase I needed to be admitted to hospital - I didn't, just got told to take some immodium!

So now I'm back to the normal stage again hopefully until cycle 3. My only concern is the one thing that is meant to get worse is the fatigue and that really knocked me back this time. I don't know how I'll cope if it multiplies at the rate it did between cycle 1 and 2 for the next four cycles as I really struggled this time. Although I think the worst part was for me that I didn't know how long it would last for, next time I know I need to right off days 2 and 3 get some help with Amber and relax. Hopefully that will be enough, we shall see.