infusion #1 yesterday
I got there for a "four hour appointment" at 10:00 a.m. I finished up at 5 p.m.
Since lugging around the infusion device was a pain in the ass (tubes and the power cord tangling) I only went to pee once. So I limited my water intake during those 7 hours. I was PARCHED when I got home.
But I feel great...just like usual. The only uncomfortable part was the recliner. Recliners NEVER fit short people: my ass to my knees is a much shorter distance than most people's.
Why seven hours?
30 min saline
30 min dexamethasone
30 min benedryl
then some more shit to keep me comfortable like anti-nausea and shit.
FINALLY some honest to god chemo drugs:
A tiny portion of TAXOL, which can make a person really really sick.
The we wait 30 minutes to see if that tiny portion of Taxol kills me. Which it did not.
3.5 hours of Taxol
45 min of Carboplatin. Funny thing...my Damn You Autocorrect insists that Carboplatin is "carbonation". I'll ask my IT guy how to turn that fucker off.
Since it was my first infusion, I'll probably feel good for the next three weeks. The second infusion will prob make me a bit sick, and then the third to sixth will be all the horror stories you've heard about chemo.
Dexamethosone is wreaking havoc with my blood glucose, but no sleeplessness or roid rage. Yet. I have to take it for the next three days.
And today at 8:30 my autoinfuser for Neulasta will start infusing for 45 minutes. It's a handy drug because it causes my bone marrow to make white blood cells that chemo yesterday killed off. It's bad because it'll make my bones ache as they do so.
Always an adventure. However, in conclusion: so far so good for stage 3c cancer.
Since lugging around the infusion device was a pain in the ass (tubes and the power cord tangling) I only went to pee once. So I limited my water intake during those 7 hours. I was PARCHED when I got home.
But I feel great...just like usual. The only uncomfortable part was the recliner. Recliners NEVER fit short people: my ass to my knees is a much shorter distance than most people's.
Why seven hours?
30 min saline
30 min dexamethasone
30 min benedryl
then some more shit to keep me comfortable like anti-nausea and shit.
FINALLY some honest to god chemo drugs:
A tiny portion of TAXOL, which can make a person really really sick.
The we wait 30 minutes to see if that tiny portion of Taxol kills me. Which it did not.
3.5 hours of Taxol
45 min of Carboplatin. Funny thing...my Damn You Autocorrect insists that Carboplatin is "carbonation". I'll ask my IT guy how to turn that fucker off.
Since it was my first infusion, I'll probably feel good for the next three weeks. The second infusion will prob make me a bit sick, and then the third to sixth will be all the horror stories you've heard about chemo.
Dexamethosone is wreaking havoc with my blood glucose, but no sleeplessness or roid rage. Yet. I have to take it for the next three days.
And today at 8:30 my autoinfuser for Neulasta will start infusing for 45 minutes. It's a handy drug because it causes my bone marrow to make white blood cells that chemo yesterday killed off. It's bad because it'll make my bones ache as they do so.
Always an adventure. However, in conclusion: so far so good for stage 3c cancer.