Chemo hooked up so drugs & radiation are working together.

Started the day off with a 2h walk with Reg Sewrey behind Hall on a magnificent late winter day.
Today was another long day at the hospital just to set things up; the actual action only lasted minutes, but getting to & from the hospital plus various delays meant it was half a day for me & Lynne.
Yesterday I checked with medical oncology where I was told that I did not need a blood test; today I got a late call to say that I did in fact need one! That meant getting to pathology at 1300, then 1h 30m before results were with the chemotherapy clinic.
Long wait there while the medication was made up. The drug 5-FU will be continuously infused from a cartridge, which this time round is the size & shape of a baby's feeding bottle with a bright pink cap!! You need big shirt pockets to carry it round in!! The cartridge will need to be changed each week.
Then downstairs to radiation oncology where dose #3 of radiation was put through me. No side effects so far, but now there is the serious combo of chemo and radiation at work. Feel very relaxed about it all so far
Met others in the waiting room who were full of praise for radiation, which they said had cured them.

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