Oh what a night..

What a difficult night it turned out to be.

My body was reeling from the chemotherapy and radiotherapy and throughout the night I was either too cold or too hot. I managed to get 3.5 hours of sleep, it's 6:40am, and I'm feeling strange internally at the moment. The best way to describe it would be something akin to the feeling you have before walking in the door at your first job interview, the sensation that your stomach is in knots and tense.

The nurses gave me two drugs to suppress the nausea and vomiting after receiving the high dose radiation drug Cisplatin and Radiotherapy. For the physicians reading this blog, they are Ondansetron and Stemzine. These drugs block the action of serotonin in the body which is a neurotransmitter, involved in the transmission of nerve impulses.  Basically my stomach is trying to post a letter to my brain telling it. "hey, you want to be sick and feel like crap" but the envelope's not being delivered, a bit like Australia Post at times.

I was also given ANOTHER daily task to add to my ever growing list, which now includes rubbing pure Sorbolene cream around my entire neck morning and night to help treat the burns associated with radiotherapy.

One step at a time and we'll hopscotch our way along to complete this journey. It's just a matter of having to decide which foot goes first each day, left or right?