I made it!!!

If you have been following my social media accounts you would know that I have recently completed all 9 of my Intensive chemotherapies and 28 sessions of Radiotherapy! Crazy right? It only seems like yesterday that I started my first ever intensive chemotherapy. The intensive chemotherapy is by far the hardest thing I've had to go through physically and mentally, it would wreck my body and my mind would be depressed. However, in a situation like this all you can do is fight, giving up may seem the easy option but we fight and show cancer that it won't defeat us!
Incase you were wondering my last intensive chemotherapy went very well, for the radiotherapy we dropped one of my chemotherapy drugs called Actinomycin D and that made all the difference. I didn't even really feel like I was having chemotherapy- I was able to eat which I never do on chemotherapy and I barely got any nausea! The side effects of Radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy was quite hard, but due to me feeling much better on chemotherapy I wasn't too worn out.
(Sorry if the video doesn't work, I've had a few problems uploading it)

As for Radiotherapy that was really tough! The first three weeks were pretty easy, but then the side effects really kicked in. I was extremely tired all the time, I lost my appetite and my skin was red and sore. Overall, it was much harder than I thought but I did enjoy going to radiotherapy as I was the centre of attention- for most of the five and a half weeks I was the only child there and the old people liked to fuss over me, I will miss them dearly. I will also miss the receptionists, they were so nice and always great to have a chat with. One of the biggest things I took from this experience was TATTOOS, for all of my life I have been adamant that I wouldn't ever get a tattoo but now I have 3 tiny tattooed dots, now I can confidently say that I was the first person to get a tattoo in my school year! Even though I've had a hard time with side effects, it was an amazing experience but I do enjoy chilling at home a million times more.

IT WAS TOUGH BUT I WAS TOUGHER!!!

Ellie xxx