Yeehar!!!!
The end of the chemo drugs and yes I feel very happy about that. No the side effects have not yet worn off so I am still peeling (particularly the feet), my mouth still has trouble eating, and all the rest but this is it.
On Wednesday I got the best news I could hope for from Niall, the CT scan I had last week shows that the cancer is no longer detectable which means I am in "complete remission". I put that in quotes as Niall normally doesn't usually use words like that so it surprised me a little and made me very happy. Of course he then qualified it as he always does, which I understand, and stated it just meant it was under control not gone but that is a hell of a lot better than the alternative.
So I had my first non-chemo maintenance treatment yesterday. This is just the Herceptin drug which has very minimal side effects. By very minimal I mean nothing quick like what I have been having although there is a small chance that it may cause heart damage. So every 3 months now I will be having a CT scan to make sure it stays under control and every 6 months a heart scan/test (I haven't had it yet so I don't know what it actually is). The non-chemo treatment is only about an hour to an hour and a half and only about 1.5 litres so none of the expelling of previous.
Just need to work out how to celebrate now.
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