FORGOT Third Day of CHEMO, Worst Day So Far that week.

Well that goes to show how bad I am at this blogging. I forgot an entire day and what a day. It was the worst day I had last weekend.

The third day of Chemo was long. First I saw the doctor and we talked over how I was doing. Told him about the nausea, he said I was doing good, but I haven’t seen nothing yet. Got hooked up to the IV from 10:50AM to 3:30PM, got hooked upon the computer about 10:45AM. The nurses first gave me my Tylenol, then the bag of Benadryl, and 125mg pill of EMEND and three pills of Prednisone. Then a bag of Rituxun and then a different nausea medicine by bag. Then they started a bag of saline solution for an IV push (needle) of Adraimycin and IV push of Vincristine. The Adraimycin has to be done with the needle in the IV so the nurse can keep checking the flow. If the flow stops or there is any leakage it can cause extensive tissue damage. Then finally got a bag of Cytoxan. Got a couple hot flashes while getting the last IV bag. I put some web links in for these meds and some of the side effects. Most I can live with like loss of appetite, hair loss, nausea, and the loss of being able to conceive a child. But everyone else is going to have to live with the mood swings and irritability. You really need to see some of the possible side effects. I do want to say my Sister, Brother, and Mother have been great about basically dropping whatever they were doing and running me to the doctor or hospital. I couldn’t have done it without them.

Got home about 4:15 PM, my stomach started to hurt slightly and steadily got worst. Took Zofransetron, nausea pill the doctor prescribed, about 5:30. Got a headache, then dizzy about 6:00 with the nausea getting worst. The nausea was steady all evening and took another pill about 10:00 PM. Got dizzy again and felt like throwing up (Nausea Scale 4 -5), but I didn’t. Debi was optimistic thou, when I came home; she had all ready set up in the bedroom and TV Room several one gallon buckets, a two gallon waste bucket and a twenty gallon waste can. Nausea was bad enough to keep me awake most of the night, took another pill about 4:30 AM, and then tried to go to sleep about 5:00 AM. Slept on and off until about 7:15 AM, still had some nausea, but not as bad (1-2).