going steady

20th march, 2012 and so i'm on week nine of the first chemotherapy treatment and i am happy to advise that I have been doing very well ...the fluororacil or 5fu has been quite easy to deal with....i get a bit drowsy and a little overtired for a day or so after treatment and then i'm fine...well enough to work albeit only part time as a full week would be too tiring...i walk, do the garden, and chores around the house and I keep going as much as i can...the morphine patch is working well and keeps the pain under control fairly well...there are still some aches and pains seemingly quite random and i also use paracetomol some days which helps and which i prefer to the prescribed liquid morphine which binds me up badly and makes me squiffy.... . . the oncologist also says I will develop a resistance to the chemo drugs and the longest he's known the 5fu work is twenty months...after which he'll go onto other drugs and combinations thereof....the difficulty is though that there are only four drugs he can use for this type of cancer....and the others are much more aggressive than the one I'm on at present....so long may it work because the treatment is likely to get rougher and tougher.... . . for the moment though we are calm comfortable and content....i don't think much about the future and instead i live for the moment...ambition is replaced by treats and gratification in the here and now...for example we are becoming well known in the local tea shops where tea and scones is very much the order of the day... . . there will be a scan next month and a further meeting with the oncologist on twenty fifth....i'll post again then so you can keep up to speed....in the meantime my best wishes to you all....jellybean