Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Today was tough

The first day of the last round was dramatically harder than any previous day. It was just one thing after another.
I was so anxious driving in to Brown Cancer Center that I was nearly out of control, it was very uncomfortable.
Then my blood pressure was sky high (180/110) when I got there and my blood pressure never runs high. This is one of those 'chicken or the egg' things: did the high blood pressure drive my anxiety or vice versa.
They always warn you during chemo to tell them if the dacarbazine in the IV injection burns you and they call slow it down, the pH is quite acidic. That has never been an issue until this time when the IV burned (badly) for the whole hour of the infusion. All I wanted to do was get out of there, I didn't want any part of waiting longer so I endured the pain.
As luck would have it, I got dizzy again after chemo and had to wait an extra half hour before I felt well enough to drive home.
Moments after getting home I realized that they hadn't given me the new nausea medicine, which I was supposed to take an hour before chemo. After a flurry of phone calls, I head back downtown to me my Emend. The trip back home was real shaky, I want to carefully scout out the side of the road for a safe place to stop and puke.
Once I got home and with the nausea medicine in my system for less than an hour, I got to go slow dancing with the toilet again. There went to new nausea medicine down the drain without enough time to get into my system.
After I got sick, everything settled down and I felt human again, perhaps that will last.

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