A 'pizza' of the action as I have my first PET Scan

THIS week wasn’t as hectic as the week before thankfully. We had a lovely meal in Après for my Mum’s birthday. In the end I picked the pepperoni pizza to eat. I have really got into pepperoni pizza since starting my treatment. They do say your taste buds change when you have chemotherapy and they weren’t wrong.

On Thursday I went for my first PET Scan. This is to find out if the treatment is working. I had to be injected with a radioactive liquid and lie down in a room for an hour. This is where Mum set the buzzers off because she was catching too much radiation from me. It was a very funny moment. Every time she came near me the number on the bleeper would get higher. I went in the scanner for half an hour, with my head strapped into a cage so I wouldn’t move, it was very scary.

On Friday I was meant to have my chemotherapy. I had geared myself up to have it and in the end I couldn’t. My blood count was far too low for them to give it me. Fingers crossed it will be ok for this Friday. I shall let you know.

I thought I would take this time to say a huge thank you to my two oncology nurses at Little Aston Hospital. They have been amazing since I began my treatment back in February.

On the day of my emergency operation Diana had begun her shift early in the morning and did not leave until I went home at nearly midnight that evening. Her shift finished at four that day and came into my operation with me and was there when I woke up in recovery. That’s dedication for you.

Anita is my other nurse and she has spent hours and hours with me trying to get my old line to work. The patience she must have is untrue and I don’t know how she didn’t scream every time it didn’t work because I was ready to. I will never forget her face the first time she used my new line and actually got blood from it for my blood test. She couldn’t stop jumping up and down with excitement.

They are both lovely people and do not get enough credit for all the hard work they put in, so thank you for everything for that you do. You are both brilliant.