Yesterday morning Kev and I were at the hospital at 645 for a heart echo. I was scared when she needed to insert an iv and get a better picture of things as I was worried she found something wrong, but she assured me it had to do with not seeing a clear picture because of my breast tissue and such. She stated they do it on about sixty percent of patients and as I left she said good luck at your chemo today, which made me think all was clear.
Went to see Teena who walked us through the whole cancer book, what to expect, etc. She then walked me to the chemo room upstair, Kev had to stay behind on this due to Covid. It is a nice open room with individual cubbies with a chair that lays back. Usually they will access your port, take a blood sample which takes an hour to analyze, so you go back to the drs office and see him why you wait, or you just hang out. When the blood work comes back good, you are give two bags of nausea medicine in your port and then the first chemo, which is bright red and is pushed through two large syringes. During this you have to suck on ice chips so that sores don't form in you mouth. Then the last bag takes thirty minutes and you are done.
Once home, I went through a bunch of things. My head felt like it had a vice pushing it, my body felt like it was so heavy. I felt like I needed to eat something because I was nauseas , so I ate a third of one of the burritos Keaton brought me and then my stomach hurt so. I had a period that I was so cold, I could barely handle it, especially my toes. I took an edible and climbed into bed at 730. I then had a period where I couldn't swallow. Luckily all these things lasted a certain amount of time and where gone. I slept through the night.
I hear however the worse is yet to come, today I just feel shaky, but should become nauseous in the next couple days. I plan on taking it easy.
One of the four worse down, 15 more in all to go.
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