Back into Chemo

After the lung operation, I felt really sore, even though Dr Harvey was able to remove the infection with key hole surgery, it still knocked me about for a while. After recovering for a few days in Surgical Ward, I was moved back to Camperdown Ward to begin my next chemotherapy. This chemo was much, much stronger than the first, and was known as the FLAG due to the names of the chemicals. The chemicals administered in this chemo were Citarabin and Fludarabine. The Fludarabine was infused every day for half an hour for five days, and the Citarabin was infused for three days, over three hours, and at least four hours after the Fludarabine. When they give you chemo, they also give you drugs to stop you feeling sick, but he one they gave me this time made me feel worse. I can't remember the name of it, but it was horrible. Then they gave me one called Dexamethazone, and it really helped me. In my first chemo, I was given Citarabin at the rate of 100mg per square metre of my surface area (which they calculate using my height and weight), every second day, for 10 ten days. This time, they gave it to me for three straight days, at the rate of 2g per square metre. That's 2000mg per square metre. No wonder I felt sick, twenty times the rate, and trying to recover from lung surgery.
Back in Camperdown Ward, I am now in the end room with a view out on the playground. With a new room mate from the Central Coast called Maddie. She is also in Year 7, so we can do a lot of our school work together.