Update #3 by Lauren

It's been 3 weeks already - I can't really believe it. Been such a whirlwind experience, especially this week. Unfortunately I spiked a temperature last Wednesday which for any healthy human being would be fine except because the chemo is doing it's job (yayy!) I have no immune system to fight off the infection AND because it's an infection in the blood my PICC line (the thiing they put all my chemo/fluids/antibiotics through and makes me look like I'm in the Matrix) needed to come out. That was a weird experience but the nurses were so lovely, patient and distractingly talkative that it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. But now I obviously need the PICC line put back in so that will happen sometime in the coming days. And for those of you who know how traumatric the last PICC line insertion was for me - stress less because even my doctor suggested that I have some sort of sedation before the procedure as last time my anxiety didn't help them. But apart from that I have remained reasonably well.

My hair has only just started to fall out and I often need a few nanna naps during the day. I haven't lost my appetite yet and haven't had any nausea. So I'm going pretty well and the doctor assures me at this point in time the chemo looks like it's doing its job!! oh yeah and just one more thing, I'm being overloaded by people wanting to come and visit me which is great to know so many people believe in me and support me, except at the moment while I'm not feeling too flash and my counts are low I'm going to be keeping visitors to family and close friends. But as soon as I start feeling better I'll want to start socialising again so I'll let you know when that is. smile emoticon but thank you for the continued love - I'm so blessed to have such an amazing support network. I think that's it for this week. And ofcourse I must sign off with ‪#‎fuckcancer‬