It is clear that I am in a far better place than I was just over a week ago, when I couldn't eat.
The fact that I am getting calories in is encouraging and, once again today, I have managed a sloppy sheperd's pie type of affair as well as the milkshakes.
On a more cautious note the meat is ground finely and this and the sloppy potato are still causing me a lot of problems. There hasn't really been any improvement in the eating all week and it would be encouraging to see some progress.
If this is compared with when I was on my original chemotherapy treatment with additional Avastin there is a noticeable gap. Then I was eating almost normally.
Patience is the key, but not knowing when to expect improvement, or how much to expect requires a degree of stoicism.
I have been asked whether the "not knowing" is difficult, but after a while you do get into a "day at a time" mindset. I feel that mindset to be healthy because it puts the focus on the job in hand and removes most of the worry. It doesn't necessarily help those around you though.
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