Didn't have to go in for chemo today either, but I did have to do to the ENT department to get my hearing checked out, been feeling a lot of pressure in my ears. Had the hearing test though and it was fine, well within normal sort of limits so at least its nice to know that all these gigs and that haven't damaged my hearing yet :P Yeah so then they put this camera up my nose... again... gotta love it when they do that... and it looks like that private hospital did a biopsy from the inside of my nose and theres a lot of old blood clotted up there blocking up one of my passages, so that would explain it. The doctor at ENT couldn't be sure though since he didn't have my notes from that private hospital... honestly I just don't see the point in private health care so far... okay fair enough when it gets serious hand it over to the NHS but at least communicate everything you've done properly. So tomorrow I'll get them to phone the private hospital I had the biopsy done and double check EXACTLY what was done and then we can sort it out, still I'm pretty relieved my hearing's not damaged or anything.
Had a few messages from some more of my mates about it all today as well, last few people I hadn't told really, pretty sure everybody who I really want to know knows about it now so thats good. Just really want to get it to a stage where its out in the open and nobody thinks they're going to upset me by talking about it really.
So yeah more chemo tomorrow, not sure how long I'm going to be for, I'll be in the day ward so hopefully they'll be people around to chat to and that but I'll have my laptop with me anyway, really gotta start getting on with work.
I'm not sleeping that well yet, my sleeping patterns are all out of whack. I woke up at about 1am this morning and only managed to get another couple of hours sleep between then and 7am. I was hoping to get some sleep during the day after my appointment at the hospital, I did nod off for a bit but people keep phoning me up asking how I am :P still just means I'll be very tired tonight anyway.
Side effects wise I'm okay so far, I really need to take to them more about when I can start to expect them to kick in more heavily, I've noticed that there are some increasing numbers on my appointment card so I assume the treatments gets heavier as they go through, but that is a total guess. Hopefully most of it will be treatable anyway, I've noticed a bit of indegestian late at night, still getting the odd headache but they're pretty mild and I think once this blockage in my nose is sorted out that should help a lot to.
Another thing, I think I said already, I really need to talk to my consultant about is bone marrow transplants, I've been getting different information about how likely that is to be part of my overall treatment and I think it's something I should definitely be aware of as early as possible... especially since finding a donor might be hard because of the Czech blood in me. Plus I'd like to get a better outline of the treatment stages after the induction stage.
But yeah, all's going well :)
