Well it’s Wednesday night, 10 PM I’ve had my first round of chemotherapy today and am very happy to report that so far. No side-effects at all!
I am in hospital and will be here for the five days straight, every day getting chemotherapy, I will be at home to 2 weeks and then back into another five days straight. This goes on for four full sessions. (approx 12 weeks in total)
Some of the things I need to do are as follows!
Drink between two and 3 L of fluid per day
brush my teeth with a very soft (baby toothbrush) after any food consumption and immediately before bed
rinse with a salt water solution after every food consumption and immediately before bed

The following information is copied from a well reputed cancer site.  The chemotherapy treatment plan I am on is BEP:

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Well it’s Thursday evening and not long to go. Touch wood we will have the go-ahead on the now foundation tomorrow morning around 9 AM.

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This is not normally the sort of thing I would write about in my blog but on the sixth of January this year I was found to have a lump on my left testicle.
In under 24 hours, I had been operated on and my left testicle was removed. By 13 January, I had been diagnosed with malignant testicular cancer.
On 15 January, I had a full-bodied CT scan, and it was found that I had a tennis ball sized tumour…

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