Recap of the last few months

I've been away from this site for a while. Life has been a bit hectic. My cancer treatment has had some ups and downs. In March, my Taxotere chemo dosage was reduced to 75% because the side effects were getting to be too much. In April on Easter Sunday, my central line catheter (CVC) decided to swell up, turn red and become sore. My hopes of a quick trip to the ER turned out to be 3 days and nights. The CVC had become infected and needed to be removed.

Shortly afterwards and before my next chemo treatment, I had a PICC line inserted. That worked well until I had an allergic/burn reaction to chlorhexidine. That meant over two weeks of daily trips to the hospital for dry dressing. Today I no longer have issues with the PICC line as we are using benadine instead.

My last CT scan showed mixed results with one tumour growing a tiny bit and others shrinking.

Mentally all these issues have been draining but with the reduced dosage of Taxotere, I'm now starting to feel stronger with each cycle. My body is enjoying the reduced chemo as well.

That is a quick recap of the last few months.

All the best,

Daria

Living with Cancer