The Sixth And Final Chemo Cycle - posted 23.8.18
The prospect of The Sixth And Final Chemo Cycle had lost a bit of its glamour and excitement due to the liver function test business and being delayed to 17 August. And 17 August was a weary day. Although I'd had four weeks to recover from the previous chemo plus Avastin, I felt more tired than I remember after three weeks on previous cycles and hadn't picked up as much as I'd got used to between chemos. I do like a cause and effect but there are lots of variables to consider for this - the anxiety over the LFT, the accumulative decline in WBCs, accumulative chemo fatigue (?), but my main concern is that it could be because of the bevacizumab. If the proposal for a three-weekly bevacizumab regime for a year goes ahead and I feel that tired, it becomes a tricky cost-benefit calculation. But I guess that has to be left for another day as there are too many uncertainties. One of the chemo nurses had called in the week before to clarify various things - LFT results on the ...