Day T-5

After a fitful night's sleeep, interrupted by my drip alarm going off every three hours, I finally dragged myself out of bed at 6 this morning. I got my premedications for this morning's chemotherapy, more ativan and prednisone, as well as Nexium for my stomach. I ordered an omlette and english muffin with coffee and climbed into the shower.

Showering with a central line hook upto a drip pump is kinda weird. I tape a baggie over the dressing on my chest where to port enters my body, then I roll the drug machine into the shower with me, park it where I hope it won't get wet, and off I go.

Then promptly at 0700, the drug began. First up, VP-16(aka Etoposide) which I have had before in my R-ICE treatments. Its not too bad, it does get me a little nauseated, but not enough to prevent me from eating my omlet. This Etoposide is roughly twice the dose I received previously, and I will have another round of it at 7 pm tonight. Oh joy. Immediately following the Etoposide, I get a blast of another chemo agent, I can't remember the name atm. So its 4 hours of chemo in the morning and four hours of chemo again in the evening. The drugs are really powerful and take their toll, but I feel pretty good so far.

Today I'll take some pix of my room and post them.