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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If you are being harassed by debt collectors, too scared to answer the telephone and have the weight of the world on your shoulders. Then read on, because we’re going to tell you what the debt collectors don’t want you to know!

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a guideline on debt collection. It includes reasonable conditions such as:

• You should only be phoned between 7:30 AM and 9 PM.
• You should not be contacted more than three times per week without your permission.
• You should not be contacted at work, unless there is no alternative.

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Making your payments.

In these difficult economic times it is so easy to put off making your home loan payments, but this can have far-reaching negative effects. Let me give you a couple of examples.

·        Most lenders will charge you a higher rate of interest for the period your home loan is in arrears. This means, even when you do make your payment. You’re probably likely to still be behind due to the arrears charges. Depending on your lender. This can get out of control very quickly.

·        You may be charged dishonour fees, by both your lender and your financial institution.

·        Being late with even one repayment can seriously affect your ability to

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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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