freckles, spots...

During the chemotherapy your skin will be really sensitive, so you should use sun screen to prevent spots from appear.
Other melanine spots will appear but hopefully they will be gone once your treatment is over. ;)

Keep you hydrated

Even though you are not hungry you should really try to drink. I know it is really hard when your stomach is so closed it doesn´t even want water. But being hydrated is important, so try drinking sip by sip.

Pain and side effects

Since October I have had pains for one thing or the other, tiredness, dizziness or other annoying side effects.
I had to get used to get up and feeling bad every day, this was the new normality for now. And I needed to deal with it.

SUCK IT UP AND DEAL WITH IT ANA!!!


That meant not complaing when something hurted and try to live with it. :) And still be happy or at least try.

Hospital and home

The doctors told me my defences are two week to have a normal life. And that I should avoid having contact with people which means I need to stay home until my defences are up again.
I have been home since November I miss having a normal life, simple things like going to a coffee shop, do the shopping, cinema, doing sport.... I can´t because of my PICC.

new fashion

With my PICC I can´t use my jumpers or long sleeve shirts, shirts... I had to change my manner of dressing. Now I have to use men hoodies/ jumpers because mine will not fit with my big arm. I thought about buying bigger jumpers and hoodies for me but, what is the point if it is only for this year. I just bought one hoodie and two jumpers the rest of the time I use borrowed clothes :).

hospitalized part 1

When I went to the emergency room they inserted me an IV. And after a lot of waiting, a sonography and that several doctors checked on me they decided I had to spend the night in the hospital.
I was really scared because I thought I was going home that day and even more frightened as doctors didn´t know the reason why I had that bump.
I remember I was in the temporary bed with my dad and another doctor came and told me they were going to send me to the second floor. They made me take off my clothes and get dressed with the hospital robe.
When I arrived I discovered my roomate was a really old lady. Unfortunately she shouted at night and she wouldn´t let me sleep. I remember sometimes she asked me to help her to wake up at which I always responded that I couldn´t.
The first morning, the team of doctors came to see me. They told me they did not know why I had that bump and that they would make me some tests to find it out. They told me the would do several tests on me:
-a biopsy of the bump to study it.
-several blood tests
-a scanner of my body in the hospital.
-punching my bump to analyse it
-a sonography
-mantra 
Afterwards I was really scared because I knew the biopsy will involve an operation. And I had never had an operation before. I was also supposing that some of the tests would hurt. I remember I cried a lot. I did not want to be that sick... I thought I would go home soon.

my first IV