So the faithful day has come and I started the next cycle of chemotherapy, what I call the dinosaur of treatment that has been used since the 1960s if not earlier, vs my first chemotherapy cycle that became standard protocol for triple negative breast cancer only in 2020. The second chemo cycle is biweekly AC: Adriamycin (Doxorbicin) and Cytoxan (Cyclophosphamide), a total of 4 times and Keytruda (Pembrolizumab) every three weeks
The horror of the description of the actual infusion was not encouraging --- a burning sensation as it is administered, an awful metal taste, nausea and that is just to name a few....But, as a happy contrarian, I am glad to report that not only I survived it, I avoided most of the above.
The 1st chemo in new cycle ✅
I got home and in addition to my regular fatigue I was nauseated and sleepy, so no movies to save me ☹, but unable to sleep. And that is exhausting.
