Summary of cycle 2

Today marks three months since I was diagnosed, but also day 4 of the third cycle of my treatment.

Cycle one was though (see reports one and two), but things went well for the second one. Besides some persistent rashes, and lots of small spots on the forehead, I had no physical side effects. I haven’t experienced new episodes of back and abdomen pain, and I recovered about 4 of the 10kg I’ve lost so far – thank you, pastries and donuts! I had a few episodes of high diastolic blood pressure though, so the doctors gave me new tablets to handle it. On the other hand, since back pain disappeared, I stopped taking extra morphine before going to bed!

Preparing pills for the week

As I felt better, I managed to go to the office every day for the past 3 weeks, enjoyed a cinema night seeing Get Out, and woke up at 6:30 to enjoy Record Store Day (even building a companion app for it). I also started exercising again, including a few 30min cycling sessions on the trainer with Zwift (with a bit of hill training), and one miserable attempt at running where I was completely out of breath after one kilometre. It was a bit better a few days later with a walk-run interval, but it looks like I need to learn how to run again – whereas I finished Dublin’s half-marathon last September. I had to miss the Virgin Night Run 10k (for which I registered with Julie in December, before the first symptoms), but hopefully I could do a 5k soon!

Besides those good news re. my physical abilities, it’s still an emotional roller-coaster, even though I’m looking on the bright side of life most of the time. Yet, I have 6 more weeks to wait before my first scan, in order to see how I react to the treatment.