Well what a exciting day! Started as usual, me causing a ruckus in the chemo room. I swear they are just too stoic in there! So Tama and I were talking and laughing and soon everyone in the room joined in. My "new" nurse said oh I see we have a comic in the house, my reply was oh yes they book me every three weeks, to provide you with quality entertainment. The regular nurse Kristin was there and she pipes in "oh we have missed you!" There was a conversation about cows going on it was so dang funny I had tears running down my cheeks. A couple of the nurses that bring supplies in were talking about their pet chickens, which led to pet cows and they were trying to one up each other. Well the one nurse started talking about the names she gave her cows Mr. T and Elsie the other one say well my cowssssssssss names are Bar B Que, Brisket and Rump Roast. Why the heck I found this so funny I don't know but I couldn't let it go. But I can't help but wonder what they call the pigs!
So on with the Crash
Had my last of the koolaid (adyramycin, cyotoxin) cocktail today and my body objected heavily. I really didn't know it, I was too busy trying to keep focused on my panicked daughters face, and was speaking in a forign language obviously because no one knew what the heck I was saying, including me lol.
My blood pressure dropped suddenly from 147/87 to 99/62, I was cold, then hot, then cold ping ponging. I stopped breathing according to the machine but I swear once again I was breathing just fine, slower maybe but breathing. The heart monitor said my heart was going wonky. The questions were do you have heart problems, no I say none - what? answer the question! I did answer the damm question NO HEART PROBLEMS! ok roger that.
The nurse is a tattle tale too she is going to call the doctor and tell him how I am so he knows when I go for my shot tomorrow. Kill joy!
Well it turns out that it was either from not eating before chemo, or because the nurse was pushing it in too hard and fast. Who knows but I am ok now and don't remember that much. After that my daughter took me to lunch at Quiznos.
So any way that is done and I am happy. In three weeks I will start 12 (not 10 as origionally told) weekly treatments of Taxol. Another chemo. The doctor said it will be like a walk in the park compared to this. The nurse said, yeah well you will loose anymore hair you may have, and your nails could fall off, you could break out ect. Everyone reacts differently she said, and you will have compazine with it.
This nurse is so full of hope. She needs some "Moon" style lessons on her bedside manner to be sure, but hey guess you can't be mad at the messenger.
The one think I hope it doesn't affect is the brain cells, I am having alot of trouble with remembering what I did, when I did it and sometimes I just don't care enough to remember because well ...... I don't remember! LOL such is life and it will go on.
YeeeeeeHawwwww! sometimes ya just gotta grab life by the balls and run!
1 comment:
Moon you are a brave lady. Thanks for your words re Kris (my sis), she is looking at several unpleasant possibilities, the worst of which is colon cancer. It takes a couple weeks for all the testing to be done and back. I realized after my post that she is just a couple months short of the age my mom was when diagnosed with brain cancer. I am being positive that it isn't ca, just hope I am right. None of the possibilityies are nice, though, she has a rough road ahead no matter what. BTW, a friend of mine who had chemo for breast cancer used to say her best friend was her external brain, cause chemo-brain kept her from remembering anything. Get yourself an extenal brain, they keep track of things for you. She had no family around and only the one friend near her, her husband was 200 miles away (they are divorcing) and 2 kids she homeschooled, one bipolar at 7. Everytime I think my world is dark, I think about her... now 3 yrs ca free! PTL indeed. I will think of you too, and pray for you, you are a braveheart! I hope the next bout of chemo goes well... or at least better. You are in my thoughts and prayers. K
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