Made it through the first one!

Here it is the day after, and I feel normal and look the same. The effects of the chemo are cumulative so I'd better live it up before the fatigue and other bad stuff set in.

The process took about four and a half hours in a recliner in a room with 7 others getting chemo. I felt lucky to have had the port installed so the nurse didn't have to poke around for a vein and I could move my arms without worrying about pulling out the IV as my next chair neighbor did.

The drugs started with Benedryl to counteract the side effects of the second bag which was Avastin designed to cut off the blood supply to the tumor. Next was a bag of antinausea medicine followed by the first chemo drug called Abraxene, then another antinausea bag followed by the second chemo drug called Carboplatin. The finale was a bag of Zometa to protect the bones from the cancer there and then a steroid to counteract something. I sure hope the people in charge of this huge combination were tops in their classes!

For all of you Optimists out there, you might know I wore a Centerville Noon shirt to chemo ready for the big Dragons night afterward. The first nurse who did the fingerstick bloodtest said, "What is a Centerville Noon Optimist?" I explained and she thought that was cool. My main nurse said her husband has been coming to our meetings with someone from his office - don't think I have met him. The last nurse who unhooked the tubes said, "You are the ones that put on the Fishing Derby, right?" She had taken her 6-year-old son for his first time of fishing. She said he had a great time and now wants to go fishing all the time. He really liked his door prizes. Small world!

Thanks for the wonderful messages, thoughts and prayers. They mean more than you can imagine.
Margaret