Chemo Treatments #2 and #3

So, here I am again to tell you about my second and third chemo treatments.  Really, they were not much different from the first one other than I had to do blood work and see the nurse practitioner on the same day.  The treatment went a little faster as well.  Instead of taking the whole time, it took about an hour or so less just to get the chemo but having blood work done and seeing the nurse practitioner took up some time.

Getting these treatments is almost like a whole work day in the amount of hours that I am there at the doctor's office.  I go in at about 8:00 a.m. or 8:30 a.m. to get started and usually finish up around 3:30 p.m. or 4:00 p.m..  Plus, I cannot drive to the treatments myself as I get Benadryl and another medicine that makes me drowsy.  I have been lucky to have some great friends and family to take me to my treatments.  They have stayed most of the time with me but I have given them the option to drop me off and then pick me back up if they want to do so.  I do not want to hog someone else's whole day if they need to do something as well that day.

The treatments have been sped up a bit since the first one.  The first treatment they were mainly watching to see if I had any kind of reaction to the treatment itself.  I did okay and now it is full steam ahead on the treatment! The one difference I can tell you is that I get REALLY drowsy.  I will nod off from time to time but that seems to be a pretty normal thing to do judging from the other patients who are there getting their chemo as well.  I do have some conversations with others there and my friend who brought me but I am so "loopy" that I am thinking that I hope the conversation makes sense to them.  It is weird to be hoping that what I am saying is making sense, hoping it is following along with the conversation.  So far, no one has looked at me too weird while having a conversation.

Well, chemo side effects are not great but they are not as terrible as I thought they would be.  I will save this topic for another post.

Thanks for reading!!

Jenn