Well it feels a little strange - just waiting for the start of chemo. I am walking for over an hour each day and keeping very busy doing social stuff with friends and enjoying a spell of summer weather and watching Wimbledon.
On Wednesday 1 July it will be 6 weeks after the operation and I will be able to lift heavy weights (like a golf bag) and start high impact exercise (keep fit classes with a room full of young women in leotards - well some-one has to do it!).
I will have a week to start playing golf and keeping fit before Wednesday 8 July when I am due back in the hospital to have a "central venous catheta" inserted in my chest near my shoulder bone. This is a small pipe that runs into a vein and is inserted under a local anesthetic. This will stay in for 6 months and will be the pipe through which the chemicals are pumped and (I think) all the blood samples are taken - so not many too many needles!!
Then on Thursday 9 July I go back into hospital and they will connect up a pump with a reservoir of drugs and send me home for 2 days while the drugs drip feed into my body. I then return to the hospital on the Saturday to have the pump removed.
This will be the first of 12 cycles of treatment and we will have to see how we go with any side-effects.
I will post more news after the 8 July.
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