Sunday, September 28, 2008

Life after treatment

Thankyou C. I do have a holiday booked for November which will be nice. I have enquired with my nurse about if it will be safe to drink a glass of wine, I'd really like to be able to. My hair is still thin & scraggy but is beginning to grow back. My eyebrows were affected by the treatment & grew in strange directions - I thought it was just age but as they are now going back to normal it must have been the treatment! I saw the dentist recently & he said my gums were still sensitive after the treatment, apparently it can be hard on them, & he suggested using a soft toothbrush for a few months. So if you're on treatment don't scrub your teeth madly! I've been eating like a horse (not that I didn't have a good appetite anyway but now I'm ravenous) & so, disappointingly, have been putting on weight. Generally I feel pretty much the same as I did while on the treatment (maybe slightly less tired?) & before the treatement which is to say I feel normal & not ill in any way.