Halfway - and qualified good news
I'm halfway through chemo and it's working. I had my first treatment in the middle of winter, and tomorrow I'll be having treatment number 7. Spring has well and truly sprung, we've been into lockdown and are coming out again and the tumour in my pancreas is half the size it was last November. Of course it's qualified good news. I still have a terminal illness. But there haven't been a lot of moments to celebrate since November so I'll take what I can. My most recent chemo treatment was in the middle of March. I was feeling absolutely exhausted and beginning to ask myself how much more of this I could take. After discussion with the oncologist I decided to give myself a bit of a holiday and take two weeks off from chemo over the Easter holidays. That coincided with a follow up CT scan at the end of March. So for the past couple of weeks I've been making the most of being able to do some little things I enjoy - longer walks, cooking, gardening and even ti