First Treatment Day

Fish joke:  What do fish watch in their extra time?  Telefishon  (hmm wonder if jaws and flipper would be popular shows?)

Summary of the day:  Today is the best I have been feeling, physically, in long time.

Sitting in my comfy chair waiting for Power Port Plug in.

The day started off early, having to be up 6am ish as our appt was for 8am. Yes these days that is early.  For a hospital environment the atmosphere in the Chemo Treatment room was very upbeat and pleasant when compared to previous areas we have visited. The biggest component were the nurses, they are extremely friendly, knowledgeable comforting and reassuring.  To start the treatment one of the nurses reviewed the medications they would be administering and recapping the side effect information previously discussed weeks earlier to be sure all was covered.  Then we went through the counts from my blood tests, that were taken earlier in the week, to which all were in line for us to begin treatment.  Next onto plugging in the Power Port - Yeah finally.

Due to some swelling there were some troubles lining up the needle, though after the 2 nurses spent a few minutes crushing my chest plate all was done.   Hey - 1 needle prick and we are plugged in with fluids flowing inches from the heart and rushing around the body doing their job.  (instead of an arm IV connection for the weekend - much better)

Now this is the weird part.  You would think with these newly introduced fluids, I would feel something, perhaps some burning or cooling, something similar to a needle you have gotten in the past.  I mean this is a fairly large volume of liquids hitting the blood stream quickly in a major artery.  There were no unique feelings or experiences.  Just  the beeping of the IV rack as the pouches came close to emptying.

Look out Captain Morgan

Teresa and I watched some TV, played a Yahtzee card game.  I had time for a quick nap and then it was time to go.  12:30 the last of the treatments were being connected to the Power Port for the 46 hour drip at home and then off we were.    So here is my Captain Morgan Pose.    The bottle in my hand is the meds and the stuff on my chest is all the Tape used to keep the IV line from moving or kinking.  Now I spent 35 years growing 35 chest hairs which will be lost - not to fall out - but to be ripped out due to some unfortunate taping locations.  :(    March 14 I shall be shaving what remains for chest hair. 

 I will post some quick updates as the weekend goes on.



Keep smilin
Jason