Today is the first day of chemotherapy. I have no idea what to expect. Last night, I had a hard time sleeping because I was actually thinking about it and started getting a little nervous.
I saw Dr. Feiner just earlier where he went over a few things like the results of all of the procedures that I've been having. He's pretty positive about what's happening because he said that the lymph nodes have actually gone down in size. Of course, that could be the result of taking one out during the lymph node biopsy. He also set up my appointments with the radiation oncologist to go over the procedures, because I'll be doing radiation after the chemo is done.
Right now, I'm sitting in the infusion center, waiting for everything to start. I'm sitting next to the window where there happened to be more room. Renu came with me today to give me some support. It's snowing pretty good outside. We're actually supposed to be in a winter storm watch today and could get 5-10 inches of snow. Anyways, the room is not bad. The chairs aren't super comfortable, but, at least, they recline. There's WI-FI here so I can connect to the net, but I already downloaded some movies through iTunes so I'll be mostly watching movies today.
So, the first thing that they are going to do is to draw some blood from my port, so that they can do a blood count test. Hopefully, I put the EMLA cream correctly to numb up the area. We'll find out soon.
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They put the needle into my port to draw some blood. I thought it would hurt because I wasn't sure about the emla cream, but it seemed to be fine. I was cringing because I saw it and was anticipating it to hurt, but it didn't. Since they don't anticipate my blood count being low now, they plan on starting the treatments immediately. The first treatment is going to be the nausea medicine.
I saw Dr. Feiner just earlier where he went over a few things like the results of all of the procedures that I've been having. He's pretty positive about what's happening because he said that the lymph nodes have actually gone down in size. Of course, that could be the result of taking one out during the lymph node biopsy. He also set up my appointments with the radiation oncologist to go over the procedures, because I'll be doing radiation after the chemo is done.
Right now, I'm sitting in the infusion center, waiting for everything to start. I'm sitting next to the window where there happened to be more room. Renu came with me today to give me some support. It's snowing pretty good outside. We're actually supposed to be in a winter storm watch today and could get 5-10 inches of snow. Anyways, the room is not bad. The chairs aren't super comfortable, but, at least, they recline. There's WI-FI here so I can connect to the net, but I already downloaded some movies through iTunes so I'll be mostly watching movies today.
So, the first thing that they are going to do is to draw some blood from my port, so that they can do a blood count test. Hopefully, I put the EMLA cream correctly to numb up the area. We'll find out soon.
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They put the needle into my port to draw some blood. I thought it would hurt because I wasn't sure about the emla cream, but it seemed to be fine. I was cringing because I saw it and was anticipating it to hurt, but it didn't. Since they don't anticipate my blood count being low now, they plan on starting the treatments immediately. The first treatment is going to be the nausea medicine.
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