{"id":53,"date":"2005-07-30T01:17:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsholmes31.wordpress.com\/2005\/07\/30\/chemotherapy-day-1"},"modified":"2005-07-30T01:17:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T08:17:12","slug":"chemotherapy-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/chemotherapy-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemotherapy — day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So first I go to UW Medical Center at 8am to make a deposit, just in case. That goes fine.<\/div>\n
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Then I go to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance at the Hutch for a blood draw at 9:30am. They say, hey, you don’t need a blood draw. Go on up to infusion. I wasn’t supposed to start infusion until 10:30, but I went up anyway. They told me I actually wans’t scheduled for infusion until 1pm. Great. So after waiting around there until 10:50 or so, they eventually figure out that they have no idea who called me and told me to come at 9:30 and that 1pm is definitely the best time.<\/div>\n
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So my mom, Jon, and I go to Coastal Kitchen for brunch, which was very tasty if highly caloric. Then we went back to the Hutch at 1pm for my infusion. I get a room pretty quickly and lie down. Basically what’s supposed to happen at this point is for them to give me an IV, some anti-nauesa drugs, a test dosse of one of the chemo drugs\u00a0(the Bleo), and then wait an hour to see if I have an allergic reaction to the Bleo. Then they’d push the rest of the Bleomycin, Adriamycin, and Vinblastine and then give the Dacarbazine as a drip.<\/div>\n
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This whole process should have taken about 4 hours starting at 1pm. But they were busy. Someone showed up 5 hours late to their appointment and so I didn’t end up getting out of there until 7pm. Sheesh. They assure me in the future it will take only about 3 hours from sit down to get up & leave.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, no crazy side effects yet. I do have a bit of an upset stomach and maybe the slightest twinge of nausea. I just took some ativan to help with that and am on some other crazy anti nausea drug called Ondansetron (brand name, Zofran), which is $250 for 6 pills (but of course MSFT insurance covers that np). It’s pretty leet the way it works — it selectively blocks serotonin receptors to keep "hey, you should vomit now" messages from reaching the brain.<\/div>\n
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So we went out tonight to Daniel’s Broiler for a tasty steak and chocolate desert. I figure may as well celebrate having no side effects. mmmm good. <\/div>\n
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Now I don’t know if my slight nausea is because of the chemo or the immense foodstuffs. I’m betting the latter.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, I’ll update on my status throughout the weekend. One of the drugs may give me a fever of 102, but so far no fever. We’ll see.<\/div>\n
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Here are some pics of me getting my treatment.<\/div>\n
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Too happy for chemo<\/div>\n
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You have approximately 7 minutes to live.<\/div>\n
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7 minutes — think fast!<\/div>\n
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They put on full hazard gear to handle this stuff.<\/div>\n
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Adriamycin is red!<\/div>\n
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Mom and Me<\/div>\n
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Battery powered IV Drip for bathroom trips np<\/div>\n
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Jeebus. \u00a0 So first I go to UW Medical Center at 8am to make a deposit, just in case. That goes fine. \u00a0 Then I go to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance at the Hutch for a blood draw at 9:30am. They say, hey, you don’t need a blood draw. Go on up to infusion. … Continue reading Chemotherapy — day 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ictG-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49,"url":"http:\/\/www.forawesome.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/chemo-26-complete\/","url_meta":{"origin":53,"position":0},"title":"Chemo 2\/6 complete","author":"john","date":"August 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"After spending a morning in meetings, I went for a delightful lunch with Heather (Indian Buffet followed by Ice Cream Cow Chips) and negotiated the vending of Dungeon Siege II. 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