Home at last
Last scan for this session was uneventful, as they all pretty much are. Sometimes I think you have to be partly a masochist to spend an hour and a half in a CT tunnel. Anyway, that is all behind us now for this session and it is really good to be home (even if it meant a three hour bus ride, since the trains were all down!).Â
Nausea, if that is what it was, peaked last Thursday evening at about 36 hours post-infusion, Friday was much better and by Sunday I was feeling absolutely normal. Even though the Capecitabine is at half strength, I still continue to take the anti-nausea pills each morning and I am sure that helps.
I am looking forward to getting back to work this afternoon after a week of enforced laziness. I was able to complete several projects and tasks while in Perth, but lacked the interest (or desire, or energy, or mood) to do much more. As with any new treatment, you go in with a little trepidation, and positive expectations. I found the expectations well reinforced and the trepidation a bit too unfounded. After all the tales of nausea and feeling poorly, it turned out to be nothing worse in my case than a long, very long, lasting stomach ache and general lethargy. I have to say, however, in all honesty, that nausea is not something I have ever really suffered from. Even in my days in the Merchant Navy, I was never seasick, so I expected not to be too bad based on my life’s experiences, but for me it was bad enough to be unpleasant.
I will continue the Capecitabine for another eight days and followup bloods for eight weeks. Then I suppose we will hear when the next infusion session is scheduled. I must add that this treatment gives one a very positive outlook, knowing that the treatment should be attacking these little bludgers everwhere at the same time. So I am barracking for the Lutetium-177!
Until next time - Eric