Chemo dates

This is a quick post. I have got the dates for my chemo - I am starting on 12th August, in Livingston, rather than the Western in Edinburgh.

This is good news as we was a bit worried how I would get to and from the hospital - not actually the going to the hospital, but rather the getting home from the hospital after I have been pumped full of drugs.

St John's in Livingston is five minutes from home and if the worst comes to the worst I could get a taxi there and back (Helen was suggesting that I cycled, hmmmm).

One of the consultants at the Western has a clinic at St Johns every week, so this is the best of both worlds - same treatment as at the western, with full access to the specialist nursing team and oncologists, but five minutes from home.

The treatments will last for 8 cycles of 3 weeks each, back to back, giving a total of 24 weeks (23 actually). Each cycle starts with a day in hospital - a tuesday as it happens. This is followed by tablets for two weeks and then a week off, before starting again. So, eight 3 week cycles less the last week makes 23 weeks. That means, according to my calendar that the last treatment will be on 19th January, which is a bot earlier than I was expecting, so that is a bonus too.

that is enough from me now though so

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