My wife had a port installed chemo last Friday and immediately had her first treatment. It took about 3 hours because she had three different treatments (fluids feed into her system).
The good news so far is she has had much nausea, but did have some sore neck and headache two days after. She was in to get the port surgery checked today and when she asked they told her, as said they told her following surgery, that there may be some neck and head pain from the surgery. So that was good news, we have a reason for the neck that is healing, so it isn't some new problem.
I remain optimistic and she did well on her first 6 month chemo treatment. That was followed by about 18 months with no signs of cancer, then this. It appears this is a cycle... I read somewhere that if a person is cancer free for 5 years it is considered cured.
My wife does volunteer work at the hospital where she gets chemo. She had planned to move to volunteer work in the chemo center once she passed their mandatory 2 year cancer-free period, so she gets to start that all over again. She like working as a volunteer in "transport" so that time was well spent in any case. She isn't strong enough to handle beds and other heavy transport work but does handle movement of patients by wheel chair. It gave her something constructive to do with some of her time. But that too is off now that she is back on chemo. Not sure for how long, but no doubt long enough to put her wigs back to use.
Thanks, I will suggest my wife read this thread.
Jerry
Alex