Janet's blog

 My hair has started falling out again. This is not welcome. Winter is coming.

Back in for third treatment. The attendance pattern, thankfully, reduces now. No longer Monday Covid swab, Tuesday blood and clinic, Wednesday treatment, Friday bloods, Tuesday bloods then starting all over again the next week. It's now Tuesday Covid swab, bloods and clinic then Thursday treatment followed by a week off, which should be much less all-consuming and hopefully less tiring.  Still don't have the measure of this regime. On the (very) basic metric of loo visits I think the chemo bit is working. But it's not such an emphatic reduction as experienced after the previous  carboplatin treatments and it's unreliable. And there are other gut issues which seem to be associated - either as an after/ongoing effect of the EP0057 or as a side effect of the olaparib. Am going through a process of elimination on this but I now lean to the former: the unwanted effects are similar to what followed after previous chemos. After the previous chemos, however, I was putting them ...