chemo pills?

So this ChlVPP part of the chemo lasts 28 days, but I only have actuall chemo for 14 days, the other 14 are a rest period before starting on the PABLO phase (which is 21 days, 10 days pills, 11 days off).
The pills are plentifull - to get the dosage up, as displayed in the image, but I take them each morning so there's no messing about having certain pills at certain times.

They are 'cyto-toxic' just like IV chemo, which means it kills cells, and should not be handled by anyone but me. I do have an injection of Vinblastine on day 1 and day 8 which I go to Cookridge for and doesn't take long to administer.

For anyone that doesn't know, chemotherapy is a poison that attacks cells. The theory is that cancer cells are weaker than their healthy counterparts and therefore die quicker from the toxicity. However, our weaker cells also die, hence hair loss and various other ailments such as mouth ulcers, stomach pains (as it rips your stomach apart, so I take my pills with cottage cheese so it lines my stomach), and feeling generally shit as it attacks all cells, not just the unhealthy ones. It is alo advisable to get these drugs through your system as quickly as possible, and have been advised to drink 3 litres of water a day.

So the whole process lasts 7 weeks. At that point it should have become clear what the next stage is, quite possbily it will be another 7 weeks of the same regimen.

Also forgot to add previously that since most of my chemo is in pills that they did not put a line into me. A line, Hickman or Groshong, is a pipe in your chest that goes into a major artery. They are very advantagious in terms of not having hundreds of needles into your arms all the time, but they can be uncomfortable and take some looking after to keep clean.

Here's me with a line from my previous (ESHAP) chemo. This was taken out last May (06).