Day 2 of Chemo

Hello.

Well this is day two of chemotherapy. A new gift from the combination of chemotherapy drugs is the hiccups! It is an unwritten side effect of the drugs. I now have an added medication for the hiccups.

Monday 05/12 was the first day. A picc line was inserted through my left arm into larger and larger veins into just above my heart.  It is a soft tube that is inserted into the body that goes as close to the heart as possible. Preventing burns from the medicine in the smaller veins. I became a challenge for the nurse. When getting a Picc line, one is suppose to be relaxed. My biggest mistake was looking up a Picc line on line. Wikipedia is the worse site for information. It is easily changed and can be wrong.

On Wikipedia the line is inserted into the arm into a vein... all good. The diagram shown has the line going into one's heart. This is wrong. It does not go into the heart. It stops before it reaches the heart. Here I am freaking out, when I arrived to get the line inserted. The nurse was more than happy to tell me that I was wrong, just relax. Easier said than done. Laying down on the bed, my left arm stretched out. The first incision just tighten up my whole body. The nurse couldn't do anything with it. So a second incision was made and it took some time for her to insert the tube into my arm and keep feeding it to just above my heart.

Day One went very well, just an incredible amount of information to grasp a hold of and remember.

Day Two: It went well also.....until the hiccups started. Spoke to my nurse Rochelle RN, she told me that this was an unspoken side effect of the combination of chemo drugs. Not everyone gets it, but some do. She had a script written up for me. I have taken my first pill tonight so that I could sleep the night.

Emotionally on the whole I am doing well. I do have my moments from time to time when I am sad. Sad, but not depressed because "ain't nobody got time for that!" There are several things that I hold on too. One is all the love and support that I have been getting from the people who love me. Honestly it is something that I am just over whelmed with to receive. I am also holding on to that Dr. Hyde said cure over and over and over again. One of the big surprises is that I found out today that I will be having four weeks instead of the five or six weeks of chemotherapy. Whoohoo!

Today has been a good day. Being tired has kicked in today this afternoon. Tomorrow, I am expecting more tiredness. So far no hair loss, but that should start, if it does, after tomorrow.

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