I spent all day at Addenbrookes today due to the chemo not being on the ward when I turned up at 09:30. So I had a very peaceful day reading a copy of The Times that someone else donated to me, starting a great book called 'Unapologetic' by Francis Spufford and sleeping for an hour and a half in the afternoon. I finally got my chemo at 12:30 and escaped at 5:00. Today I had the cyclophosphamide which comes in large syringes which have to be pushed very slowly into the Hickman line while a 4 hour bag of saline is also running, as well as the much quicker Cytarabine. The former is weird as I get a strange taste in my mouth as soon as any of it hits the bloodstream, but the taste dissipates as the drug goes in. Other than that, no immediate side effects other than the usual feeling of being sandbagged (hence the nap).
Tomorrow I am going to drive myself to the hospital for the first time. Exciting!
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