Well I managed to have 9 days at home and it was wonderful. We moved house on the weekend and we are just loving being in our new place. Hopefully work will start on our old place soon and we cannot wait for it to all be done so we can move back in.
I had a little set back this week. My veins decided that they had had enough and were not putting up with this anymore and decided to send some blood clots down the line. So consequently I can no longer have drips put in my arm due to my slack veins. So I am back in hospital to have a small operation to have something called a central line put in. It is basically this little metal thing (a little bigger than a 50 c piece with three smarties stacked on top) that has a line coming off it that gets inserted directly into a large vein near my heart. They cut a small incision above my breast, insert this little metal thing, feed the line into the vein and then close it all back up. Each time I need treatment, a blood transfusion, a blood test or any IV fluids they will just insert a needle into it to give me whatever it is. The needles that go in last a week so it means heaps less needles whilst I am in hospital. It is also very little risk of infection and does not ruin my veins the way the cannulars have. Also the drugs inserted this way wont cause irritation to vein the way it does through the cannular which means no more dealing with hours of pain when I have chemo. They can even use this to administer any drugs I need during the caesar (with the exception of the spinal block obviously!). So with all this good news what is the bad news – well I had to come into hospital today and tomorrow they will do a small operation under a general anaesthetic to insert the central line and then hopefully let me out on Saturday. Then when it is all over I will need another operation to remove it. I have spoken with my obstetrician and she said a general whilst you are pregnant is not ideal however it is not a big risk. So I am anxious about it all but know once it is over it will be a good thing.
My lungs have decided they don’t want to play the game either and it looks like one of the chemo drugs is effecting them but not enough at this stage to remove the drug from my program. I have to have regular lung function tests to keep a close eye on how this particular drug is effecting my lungs and if at any point it becomes toxic to my lungs they will discontinue it.
That is all for now - I’ll update again soon
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