Chemo Sucks

But life still tastes good

Rose from the bouquet a friend gave me this week

I started chemotherapy again last week. The cycle is 3 weeks on, 1 week off, and they want me to do this for 3 months but I doubt I will agree to that long.

Last week was my first treatment since October and it was awful because it took 8 hours.

There were several reasons for this.

• Because it hadn’t been used for so long, my port got stuck
• So we had to do a line draw, which took time to fit in
• I still wanted to see the nurse before chemo, so that added more delays
• Once I actually got into the infusion room, because this was my first week in a 4 week course, I was to take two chemo drugs instead of one.
• Because it had been a while, the drips went at half speed.

My friend who had taken me had a meeting she had to get to. She had anticipated staying with me for 4–5 hours, not 8 and so she had to call another close friend to come switch places.

It was a mess.

This Monday things went much better. Just one drug, not two. My port worked fine. And the drip went at full speed.

However, by Wednesday afternoon I felt like cold vomit strewn across the living room floor. Fortunately, thanks to the latest in…