Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Cycle - Just Menong

The experience of having breast cancer could probably be part of two things that are so heavy, and I have to deal with them at the same time. Thank God for all the conveniences we get when we strive for the healing of our mother. This experience is a lesson and a reference for friends who are also struggling. The cycle of chemotherapy that you are walking on is a challenge for us.

After taking the first surgery to remove the lump and the second surgery for mastectomy (breast lifting), the next stage is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy was carried out at Santosa Kopo Hospital, Bandung, because Santosa Kopo Hospital still opened services in the early days of the pandemic.

Chemotherapy Cycle

Chemotherapy is a treatment therapy using special drugs to kill cancer cells so they do not grow quickly and spread to other organs.

In general, cancer chemotherapy is often given using the system of the cycle or frequency of administration of chemotherapy drugs. The cycle of chemotherapy can be once a week (which means 1 day of chemotherapy action and 5 days of pause) or three weeks (1 day of chemotherapy action and 21 days of pause). Pauses are used to monitor the development of patients or the administration of other therapies, such as radiotherapy.

Patients can do chemotherapy by taking chemotherapy drugs at home or receiving intravenous fluids carried out in the hospital with the supervision of a doctor.

The cycle of chemotherapy is determined based on the degree of breast cancer.

The process of chemotherapy

The chemotherapy process itself does not feel too heavy, and each session has a different experience. The patient only lies down while the medication given via infusion is complete. The round, it should be noted, is post-chemeutic. Post-scheme effects will, it appears, be different for each patient.

Mother has only felt 2 days after chemotherapy. Dizziness, nausea, and malfunctioning of the sense of taste. The doctor himself does not provide drugs other than multivitamins and painkillers.

This effect is unbearable. In addition to the spirit to heal, the power of the body is the key to being able to be strong during the chemotherapy process. Lots of conditions affect patients who dropped post-chemo or other chemotherapy due to a general lack of food intake; the body weakens. Although there was no taste at all on the tongue, Mother still forced food.

Here's what we're grateful for: Mother's passion for returning to health, no doubt. I also limit herbal medicine because I am worried about contraceptives to chemotherapy drugs. Herbal remedies: we still continue only single garlic, olive oil, honey, and date palm juice.

Effects of Chemotherapy

Because it is not tasteless, even though it is limited to certain foods such as broiler chicken, instant food, and sugar, I let your mother eat whatever she wants. Breakfast menu of our choice—it's a field. Although not much, at least there is still food entering the stomach. Instead of our supply of fruits and vegetables, add.

Although she felt dizzy, my mother did not stop doing activities. Some light activities can still be done, including going to the stalls.

Another effect is nausea and vomiting. Thank goodness this effect is not constantly felt by the mother. Hair loss begins to exist post 2nd chemotherapy, little by little, and still leaving a little hair. This loss is different for each patient. One of the Chemotherapy Patients Telling me, his hair suddenly withered and fell to the touch when he was. Wake up. This is one of the traumas for breast cancer patients.

Another thing that you feel is that she can no longer hold back urinating, so that often ablution Mother must be repeated, sheets and clothes, which are more often replaced. Some cases are constipation (disquiet defecation), but some are even prolonged diarrhea. Sometimes a disturbance occurs in the eyes, causing them to become tense or watery. In general, chemotherapy patients also complain of bone loss (osteoporosis), so additional calcium is very necessary.

This critical condition lasts between 7 and 10 days. It's just that in the 6th session, the critical period of the mother lasted for almost 2 weeks because the body may have been tired of ‘pulsed’ drugs for almost 5 months. After the critical period, the condition will improve, and the mother will prepare herself for the next chemotherapy.

These things are very influential on the condition of breast cancer patients. In addition to God’s help, support from family is also very important to get through the days of severe cancer fighting.

Chemotherapy Patients

On various occasions we usually exchange stories. There is a mother over 65 years old who is also battling breast cancer. Must treat without being accompanied by anyone because his two sons work and stay outside the city. He underwent 2 packages of chemotherapy (meaning 12 sessions) and dozens of Open Name sessions alone. And under these conditions, of course, there are many other things. Which we have to take care of, like going back and forth to the hospital for a control list or chemotherapy, queuing at the on-log surgery clinic, or just looking for a place to drink coffee outside the hospital.

May every step of experience suffering from breast cancer that we do become a note of good in the hereafter. What to do after chemotherapy is?