1st chemo appt done...
And my theory for stitching while waiting for the drip has... dripped away. Part of the pre-med cocktail to help you tolerate the chemo drugs is benedryl. The OTC version knocks me out pretty good... the dose they gave me knocked me kinda flat for 3 hours, and i wasn't in a brain-space to focus on embroidery when i woke up. Fortunately, I brought a book and read. But I was laughing at myself, because once again, plans did not survive the first contact with the 'enemy'. Hadn't counted on the benedryl, hah. I'll just have to embroider the couple days after chemo.
In other news, I *finally* finished doing one of my old laptops for roomie. This project was kind of a bear for a number of reasons, but since it is complete, officially, i'm happy to have it off my chest. Roomie was very sweet, and gave my dog a rawhide bone to work on while both of us were gone all day today. Abbie loved this last night, and pounced on it this morning.... and completely ignored it today while I was gone... I love my dog, but she's a bit of a goof, hah.
My mother will pull out my sewing machine for me tomorrow and put it on the table. I want to do more sewing on my cousin's pillow that can be done at the machine. I think I figured out a pleasing lace arrangement. The more I can do on the machine, the better. Getting the machine out isn't as easy to avoid as it sounds... I'm still not supposed to drag heavy things around with the shoulder my port's in - my right shoulder, and i'm right-handed, and so i tend to reach for things with the right hand first. Oi. While i do like my port, because it saves rooting around looking for a vein, it also felt like a horse kicked me for the two days after the procedure. Speaking of ports, it is really weird to *taste* saline when it is emptied into the *port*. I never knew anything other than DMSO had that sort of effect.
One of my 'duties' this week is going through my old e-files and getting ready to write something/ finish something I've started in order to fill the Mag7 fandom stocking. I'll try to start the writing next week. We shall see.
teal deer - not dead yet, handling actual chemo drugs fine, closely monitoring myself the next few days to see how I handle the normal side affects. I'm working on mag7 fandom stuff.
-boogieshoes, chemo'd in good faith
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In other news, I *finally* finished doing one of my old laptops for roomie. This project was kind of a bear for a number of reasons, but since it is complete, officially, i'm happy to have it off my chest. Roomie was very sweet, and gave my dog a rawhide bone to work on while both of us were gone all day today. Abbie loved this last night, and pounced on it this morning.... and completely ignored it today while I was gone... I love my dog, but she's a bit of a goof, hah.
My mother will pull out my sewing machine for me tomorrow and put it on the table. I want to do more sewing on my cousin's pillow that can be done at the machine. I think I figured out a pleasing lace arrangement. The more I can do on the machine, the better. Getting the machine out isn't as easy to avoid as it sounds... I'm still not supposed to drag heavy things around with the shoulder my port's in - my right shoulder, and i'm right-handed, and so i tend to reach for things with the right hand first. Oi. While i do like my port, because it saves rooting around looking for a vein, it also felt like a horse kicked me for the two days after the procedure. Speaking of ports, it is really weird to *taste* saline when it is emptied into the *port*. I never knew anything other than DMSO had that sort of effect.
One of my 'duties' this week is going through my old e-files and getting ready to write something/ finish something I've started in order to fill the Mag7 fandom stocking. I'll try to start the writing next week. We shall see.
teal deer - not dead yet, handling actual chemo drugs fine, closely monitoring myself the next few days to see how I handle the normal side affects. I'm working on mag7 fandom stuff.
-boogieshoes, chemo'd in good faith
This entry was originally posted at https://boogieshoes.dreamwidth.org/269985.html. Feel free to comment here or there using OpenID.