Thank you so much to everyone for the birthday wishes and all the texts, cards, mails over the weekend. After a really lovely Birthday weekend, we were back in London first thing on Monday morning for chemo. Everything went well and we took the opportunity to detour via Wycliffe on the way back to see Russell, Katharine & Lowenna :) We had a lovely time with them and it was great to see them again before they head off to Germany for the summer - Thank you for a lovely catch up & tea!!
The good news is that the effects of the chemo seem to be much less the past two weeks. They adjusted the dose very slightly but it seems to have made a huge difference and I haven't had any aches or pains or flu symptoms (so far). I am taking quite a lot of steroids at the moment so that might be helping too :)
As regards my leg, it seems to be getting stronger day by day and I have more sensation in my leg and foot. I'm still walking with a stick but I'm getting around much easier now and although the progress is slow & sometimes frustrating it's great to see the improvement day by day.
The other issue I've been having is weakness on the right hand side of my face since I was admitted to hospital. The nerve controlling my eye, cheek & mouth movement seems to be affected so it's effecting my facial expressions (I can only smile on one side at the moment!!), my eating and my speech. The good news is that nothing showed up on the brain MRI which can be causing this but it's a mystery as to why this is happening and it doesn't seem to be showing signs of improvement over the last couple of weeks...
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