Covid or cancer

From the very beginning I seem to be walking thru sludge I have never done anything easily so why should finishing chemo be easy……

Post chemo I didn’t feel at my worst I was quite lucky a few days in bed then I managed to pull on my big girl pants and enjoy the summer holidays with my girls… Or so I thought so a week after chemo my girls had a high temperature and kyrie complained of a headache I didn’t think much to it until my dad phoned me to say he couldnt taste or smell anything and a lateral had come back Positive!

I had managed to bypass covid this entire time but when jaycie lateral came back Positive I knew I wasn’t going to get away with it. 5 days later high temp and cough I got sent to A&E for blood and a covid test.

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I ended up being covid positive and on antibiotics for high WBC and a bad chest. It was definatly an experience being in the acute environment with a ‘label’… Staff triple masking coming into my room dressed like an astronaut. I just wanted to be at home; and thankfully they let me go home on oral antibiotics.

A week from baby Cuffe having a positive test hubby also tested positive so 17 days in isolation was interesting. The girls reached cabin fever almost immediately snf the amazon man became our best friend bringing goodies everyday. I thank my lucky stars I have had both my vaccinations and the only symptoms I seem to have was chesty cough, no taste or smell, high temp and slight body aching. I managed at home and managed to stay as normal as possible keeping the girls occupied and the house in some sort of order.

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So having dealt with all of this the next hurdle came… Because of my covid status aneathatists don’t like to operate on someone unless they are 4 -6 weeks post covid and I was currently 3 and a half. The breast nurse emailed the surgeons as I didn’t have a lot of time with chemo also being 6 weeks. The decision was made that my op was going to be postponed by a week to give my chest time to recover. So my new op date would be the 21st Sept.

So having come out of isolation my chest is recovering nicely and summer came to an end I had a final post chemo USS scan which showed no lymph node involvement and no tumour so as before all good news and striding forwards to my op.

Little Cuffe has also gone back to school how scary year 1!! She seems to be loving it so far all smiles and loving being back with her friends. She now has given me a list of all the after school clubs and other clubs she wants to join I’m going to need a bank loan to cover these expenses every month lol…

As life starts to get back to normal I had my first outing with my discharge divas for a very special ladies retirement. I was sick of wearing head scarfs all the time so I bought a wig off my best friend amazon and took it out for a meal.

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So life goes on and the world keeps Turning; my hair is slowing coming back, scars are fading, reality is what it is bring on the 21st xxx