2nd Cycle of Chemo starts

Mum started another cycle of chemo yesterday.

My brother took her for it this time.

With all the waiting for blood tests, and she needed weighing they were at the cancer unit about 7 hours in total.

I was recently asked if I believe in miracles, my answer was that I believe in every day miracles, things that we take for granted.

The way the chemotherapy works and the human body is a miracle in itself. The scans, everything, they are miracles of science.

The bags of chemo are made up specifically for mum, and calibrated to her height, weight and no doubt other various specifics, which is something I didn't know.

I think I just assumed that they had the bags of this stuff lying about and just hook it up and away you go.

She phoned me last night, I was expecting her to be a bit rough but she was absolutely full of beans, she had been talking to a woman who was also terminal and mum has seen just how lucky she is having a loving family and living relatively close by to the unit.

This woman lived approximately 40 miles away and had no relatives to bring her for her chemo.

Today's chemo session shouldn't be as long as she just has one drug today.

Hopefully I will be able to take her somewhere nice at weekend and give the wheelchair a spin.

:)