Chemo #1, Day 1

Today was my first chemo infusion. For the most part it was pretty easy and painless. I was a little worried since my port was still tender, but they were able to use it and the needle poke wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Best part is that they do the blood from the port also so no more arm sticks that I know of.

This chemo cocktail wasn't as long as my husband's was for his colon cancer a few years ago. This one was a bag of nausea meds dripped through the IV. When that was completed, they pushed in the IV a small vial of Adavant and then the A (Adriamycin) part of the AC was pushed into the IV very slowly. It is a little scary that this drug is red and there was 2 vials of it. Oh and by the way, you will pee red for a few times after getting that drug. Then they hung the C (Cytoxan) part of the AC. That drips for about an hour and you are all done. Only about 2 hours.

I left and went home for a while, then went to drop off prescriptions at Walmart, had dinner and then picked back up the prescriptions. So far I am doing pretty good... It is now 5 hours later and I am a little tired but thats it. Really hope it stays that way.