Wednesday 19th October
For those of you who have been paying close attention you will note that almost a week has past since my last Herceptin treatment and I am only now updating my blog.
Have no fear dear reader, this is more to do with the fact that my visits to the chemotherapy unit are now monotonously routine rather than any more sinister reason.
As you will probably guess I have little or nothing to report.
I was not kept waiting, indeed the unit was remarkably under attended, which is a very good thing I think.
The top professional nurse found a vein first time and with little or no pain.
I am also now becoming impervious to the side effects of the pre-meds, so no mid treatment snooze.
Possibly the only notably thing that happened was that the blood pressure machine malfunctioned, either that or I was actually dead!
Interestingly when automatic blood pressure machines malfunction they simply keep inflating and deflating the blood pressure cuff. Now some of you might remember that I really don't like having my blood pressure taken, not sure why but I just don't. Anyway, having a slightly "mad" machine inflate and deflate ad nauseum did little or nothing for my actual blood pressure and consequently my final blood pressure reading was on the high side. The nurse seemed unbothered by this so I'm not sure now if I actually have high blood pressure or not.
Anyway, only another 8 treatments to go. I can only hope the remainder are as boring as this one.
