Yesterday I showed up for my second treatment of chemotherapy, but it is my 8th day since I started.  What a day it has been, not completely awful but not great.

I arrive and check in, order what I think I’ll eat for lunch (did I mention I love food), pick a recliner, and wait for my nurse to draw blood.  Next, we wait for the lab results and the go ahead for me to get my chemotherapy medicine.  Today was a close call, my blood counts were fine, but my sodium and potassium were low.  I really need to do better with my fluid intake.  I was given the go ahead, so my orders were put in with the Pharmacist.  Today was supposed to be a shorter day since I would only be gettin Paclitaxel through the IP port.  Last week I received Paclitaxel in my IV port.  However, the Pharmacist had an emergency drug order that came in, so I had to wait a little bit for my meds.  I was done by 2:30, it’s not like I had somewhere else I needed to be.

My lunch came and I was not able to eat as much as I planned.  Food is starting to taste slightly different.  This treatment I decided to listen to music and I was able to does off for a little bit.  I probably slept 20 minutes, but it felt like hours.

After my meds were done they unhooked me, it was tough to stand up, feeling so heavy with about 2 liters of fluid in my abdomen.  It’s terrible walking out of chemo like you’re pregnant, not so much the way it looks, but the tightness from the fluid😏.  One of these days I’ll have Zane take a before and after picture.  Maybe I’ll wear that cute countdown maternity shirt I made when I was pregnant with Isaac. 😂

So far I feel ok, I’ve been keeping up on the anti nausea medicines and try to sleep and get rest.  Last week it was about Sat & Sun that were the roughest for me.  So, I’m hoping to see if I can do better this week.

Sorry, I forgot to take a picture while at treatment yesterday!  So here’s a picture of my “sunshine” mug one of my B.F.F’s game me!!

 
Next treatment is scheduled for June 30, which will be Round 2.