Chemo week

Tuesday, January 14th was my first day of chemo. It was a long day as first we had to meet with the doctor, technically the PA, then the educator, and then chemo. The first two appointments took about 20 minutes. The chemo was three hours. But it went fairly fast I thought.  

I’m in a room with about 12 stations. Some people are there as the same time, others in and out.  I’m a snoop so I was mostly watching people.  And staking out the best place for next visit.  

I got this awesome hoodie from BeWell which has zippers to access arms and ports. Unfortunately, my line was stuck in my hand so I didn’t get to use it as I wanted. But it would make a great gift for someone doing chemo. It is super warm. So warm that I didn’t need any blankets. 

Which brings me to my hand which is aching so bad today. On the way home, I emailed the surgeon asking for a port.  So on February 3rd I’ll be getting that placed. Since my chemo is the next day, we will stay over in Durango. 

For the most part besides the IV, yesterday went pretty smoothly. Today, I worked a full day and got in two walks with Murray and Pabst. I started getting tired around 5, but still functioned and didn’t fall asleep watching the movie. We’ve been watching Elona Holmes on Netflix.  

I did feel a little nausea around 6pm so I immediately took one of the nausea pills and continued on my water regiment.  Logged 94 oz of liquid today, 64 of it being straight water.  

And then it came time to take this off.  This little ditty was placed yesterday and would inject me 27 hours later with something to invigorate my white blood cells.  It didn’t hurt going on and was not too bothersome. 

But taking it off was a whole other story because of the fing adhesive.  I ended up having to lay on the bed and having Murray finish removing.  On a side note, I don’t know how people do this shit alone. Well sure enough it left a mark. 

And to think I get another one in 3 weeks. Yippie. Little birdies have told me that this little sucker will start making me feel bad, but who knows. 

My positive thinking is that everything happened in the first few months that these months are going to be a breeze.  Hopefully I am correct. 

Until next time….