<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/chemodrugs.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1932" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/chemodrugs-200x146.jpg" alt="chemodrugs" width="200" height="146" /></a>It's difficult to classify where we're at with the chemo as a pattern hasn't emerged yet and the medical staff seem to enjoy maintaining an air of mystery over the sequence of events. Is this because they like to keep secrets or they just don't know.

Today Jane attended hospital for her Docetaxel infusion - it's the cancer killer. She needed to be there for 11.30am to have her bloods taken and then two hours later her treatment starts. At 1.50pm she goes into the unit, sits there for two hours and they start the process at 4pm. Bearing in mind this is the fast infusion and should only take 30 minutes she didn't get out until 5pm. I don't mind waiting, I don't even mind the inefficiency behind the scenes but I do object when a nurse comes out at 4.30pm to ask me to go up to pharmacy to get Jane's steroids ready for next time when they've had all afternoon to organise this. In Lloyds pharmacy, a private company, they take 45 minutes to produce the prescription and during this time I calculate the number of requests going in exceed the drugs coming out by a ratio of 2:1 therefore the waiting time is lengthening all the time. I eventually get back to oncology at 5.30pm and Jane's sitting there waiting for me - you couldn't make it up.

And Jane is fine but she has been warned that she will be most vulnerable on Wednesday and Thursday. The steroids she takes before and after the Docetaxel have kicked in and she is getting hyper active already.