Vicky Phelan said she had a "lovely day" catching up with friends including TD Alan Kelly on Thursday.
The cervical check campaigner will appear on the RTE Late Late Show on Friday night where she will talk about her time in the US and her current condition.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the Kilkenny woman said: "Had a lovely, long overdue catch up today with two of my favourite 'new' friends @alan_kelly_td and @lorraine_walsh_callaghan whom I would never have met had I not gone public with my story and broke open the CervicalCheck debacle in April 2018.
"We have weathered a lot of storms since then but we always have mighty craic when we meet up. These are the days I live for...just catching up with friends, enjoying some good food and having the laughs.
"Thank you to the staff at the @castletroyparkhotel for looking after me as always."
Vicky recently revealed that she has lost her hair after just one dose of chemotherapy, but she is “getting used to it now”. She doesn’t mind losing it, but said that her son is finding it “very hard”.
Since her last update, she has had the first dose of her new regime. On October 18th, she was treated using medication Pembrolizumabro and two chemotherapy drugs.
Chemotherapy took a harsh toll on her body and she was very sick after it, revealing that she could only move from her bed to the couch for almost 12 days as a result.
“The only way I could describe it is like hell, really, to be honest,” she said.
During this period, she had shooting pains all over her body, she was tired but couldn’t sleep because of the steroids and then was sleeping “all around the clock” and she was constipated from pain killer and anti-sickness tablets which then turned into “explosive diarrhoea”.
She said: “It was just one thing after another over those 12 to 14 days.
“I just decided, I’m not doing this anymore. I’m just not putting my body through this anymore.”
Vicky has undergone four lines of treatment to date, with the most recent being her fourth.
“Really when you get to the fourth line of treatment, there isn’t much they can do at this stage. It’s to treat my symptoms really and to try and keep my pain under control.
“It’s palliative, you know, and we all know that. I know that. My family knows that.”
With Christmas around the corner, Vicky wants to be well enough to enjoy the festive period with her family instead of being stuck in bed.
If she underwent another round of chemotherapy, she fears that she would be in bed or in hospital with an infection or with sepsis.
“Knowing my luck, I’d end up in there over Christmas, and with Covid, no one would be able to visit me so I just decided after those 10 to 12 days of horrendous side effects, I’m not doing this anymore,” Vicky said.
She is opting to just take Pembrolizumab instead, even though “it probably won’t work”.
“It might keep me stable for a couple of weeks and that’s all I want. I just want another few weeks, until Christmas, to stay as stable as I am at the moment.”
Vicky said that she is feeling great at the moment, after her second dose on Monday, November 8. She has been able to go shopping with her daughter and plans to watch her son’s football matches.
She said: “It’s great to be able to do that. I would not have been able to do it had I had the three drugs on Monday. I would have been stuck to the bed and poor Jim [her husband] would have had to go off and do that.
“They’re the things I want to do with my kids.”
