This session actually went better than my first one.
It lasts for about four hours, with two pre-meds before the taxol. The only thing that happened was when they gave me the benadryl through the IV. Fine until it finished and then it felt like something hit me with a ton of bricks. Got a wave of dizziness that apparently they call 'sleepy'. I don't get 'sleepy' when they give me drugs like that, I get a wave of dizziness that sets me back in my chair. Or table depending on if it's surgery or not. But other than that, and having to pee about five times, it's gone rather well.
I went to bed early, around 9 which is unusual for me, but I felt tired. Took me a while to settle and then woke up around 1 and couldn't get back to sleep. I took a vicodin just to kind of take the edge off of whatever was keeping me awake and didn't get to sleep until 4. Am now up and relatively rested, need to go back to the hospital for my Nulasta shot (the white blood cell booster).
Oh, I'm trying something different so I don't scream when they give me the shot. I have some Orajel swabs from when I had a bad toothache that are a higher concentration of lidocaine than the cream they gave me. I put one of those on my port site and it worked but it didn't last long enough for my port access, but going to use that for my shot just before I leave and it should be fine.
My reconstruction surgeons office called while I was getting my infusion and wants me to set up an appointment to have my expander checked. I haven't seen him since January and they want to make sure everything is okay. They know I'm going through chemo so we can't do anything with surgery until after that's done. As I figured out before, this gets done on June 8, give it about a month or two weeks to have my system back up to normal, schedule that surgery, and I'll likely be back to work between that and surgery.... then I'll be out for surgery for about six weeks to two months. I think I should be back to work by my birthday.
Most people would take the time off gladly and not look forward to going back to work. I love my work and love the people I work with, and I know the kind of hassle it is arranging schedules when someone isn't there. I respect the people I work with and feel guilty not being there to help out. But... as everyone says, 'take time to concentrate on yourself' I haven't thought of doing stuff by myself in almost 30 years. Kind of hard to not think about other people with that kind of track record.
Well going to check my bank balances then get some breakfast and then off to the doctors for my shot.
Then... hmmph...don't know what I'm going to do with my day. Well I'm certainly not going out on a spending spree. I've got $35 in the bank after my $202 paycheck went through and the advance was taken out, and the EDD money hasn't come through yet.
'I'm in trouble' as Aladdin said.
And that's it for now. The quotes for today are either well known or aren't fitting.
Hungry, going to eat now.
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