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Bit of an update. I need to have a few tests on my kidneys, to make sure they can put up with the medicine. I also need a hearing test, as the treatment can make you deaf...
As soon as I get the ok, they will start me on chemo, which will probably be late next week or very early the week after. It's a cocktail (cocktails, yay!) of Cisplatin and Flourouracil, and I'll have a semi-permanent line in my arm and occasionally a cyborg-like pump attached to me, which I will be able to wear at work if I feel up to it.
Radiotherapy will start once I've had about six weeks of chemo. They have to check all my teeth, in case any look dodgy. They prefer to pull any weak looking teeth out before radiotherapy starts, because otherwise they can cause weird complications.
Chemo will be pretty bad, but radio will put me on my arse. Luckily, I will be broken up for summer by the time it starts, so I won't miss weeks and weeks of work. I should end up with about half of my saliva glands still functional. My moustache will survive, but I may lose the bottom of my sideburns, depending on where they decide to blast me with nuclear stuff.
Treatment will not have started next wednesday, so I'll be able to be at work for state opening.
All in all, a pretty good meeting with the doctor this morning. They were reluctant to give odds, but they said 75% was in the right ballpark.