Hi all,
Thank you so much for all your advice on here, I really appreciate it---especially the 'one step at a time' and 'everyone is different'
I went in for my first chemo today and the experience was nothing LIKE as traumatic as I expected--although am well aware next one may well be!
My sister took me and I had a 'sick-bucket' with liner in the car, just in case the puking started immediately and was dreading having a needle in and keeping it in for a couple of hours or more.
As it happened, I barely felt the needle go in, the time went much faster than I anticipated as the nurses were 'around' all the time.
I was home eating roast beef and broccoli etc by 5p.m., and have since washed up, checked my plants and sent loads of emails and read the blurb on the anti-emetics I've been given.
Am well aware that symptoms kick in at any time and get worse as treatment progresses, but having prepared for the worst, I feel blessed that I've got through the first day--and just feel so much of that is down to knowledge and attitudes learned here.
Just wanted to share that, particularly if there's anyone 'browsing' as we all did at one time, so they know one experience of 'The Start'--
And for them to know how grateful I am to the site!
Brenda
