I finished chemo number 9 and it went quite well! In the clinic I casually mentioned to my nurse that I have trouble sleeping while on the drugs (Tuesday through Thursday) and she replied that it is because they mix steroids in with it (anti-nausea etc). Oh, that would explain a thing or two, like the fact that I can not tolerate loud noises anymore or fast moving images on the TV for instance. Even watching the Antiques Roadshow gives me a headache and zooms by at dizzying speed! What I found interesting on the outsmartcancer.ca website was that with non-targeted cancer drugs, "less than 1% reaches the tumor, whereas 99% of the medication travels throughout the rest of the body thereby provoking undesirable side effects." What, I wonder, would it then do to one's brain? So, as a result, I have decided to not look nor work on my blog in the evening anymore, say after supper in order to give my noggin' more of a rest. The blog has become more or less a full-time job! Who knew?
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