Day Thirty Three

Feeling a lot rougher today, the sick feeling has kicked in and the steroids I have to take for the first three days after chemo are leaving me feeling cold and my heart pounding. I just have to rest while that happens and it eventually wears off. Not a good night, woke up at 3am feeling sick but managed to get back to sleep after about 2 hours. One thing did strike me yesterday though, when you have your lymph nodes removed from your armpit, that arm becomes untouchable - you are not allowed to give blood from it or have injections and you must take extra care of it when doing things like gardening, because you no longer have your infection protectors. I had my chemo put into my left arm because it would not go into my right. The alternative would have been a chest catheter which would be awful as it is prone to infection and clotting. Funny how things turn out, isn't it?!