Ciara McGeehan

actively getting chemo pumped into me in this moment but as the rounds went on and the toxicity built it just became so much harder and that's something that's well documented with chemotherapy and anybody who's gone through it or their loved ones will know it just gets harder and harder the more you go through it and I just got sicker and sicker and keeping

Keeping food down was an issue, even eating food.

That's something I really struggled with and continue to struggle with throughout this chemo, like surviving on a slice of toast for a day, for five days is not ideal.

But just not feeling that I could do that.

I find drinking water made me feel ill.

Just the thought of drinking water would make me vomit, not even the act of drinking it.

So trying to find means and ways around that.

I was a massive tea drinker.

It was the only thing I could drink.

Now I associate tea with feeling ill.

It's funny.

I have so many friends, not funny, but like I have so many friends who have had babies recently and I talk to them about like morning sickness and how sometimes you can associate.

We all have these little things that we can recognize in each other.

And like obviously mine was medically induced by the chemotherapy and theirs is hormonally throughout their body.

But like, how did you cope with that?

We can learn from each other.

Interestingly, I was never a coffee drinker.

One positive off the chemo, made me like coffee.

Now I can drink coffee.

It's a very strange thing, but Tommy's a massive coffee drinker and now I can enjoy a coffee too.