High Dose Chemo

Current mood: tired
Category: Life

Ok...so I started the oral high dose chemo yesterday. So far I feel fine. The pharmacy lady at the clinic said I prob wouldn't start feeling bad until around the time of the transplant. Which, if you're following along with the home version, is a week from today!! So, there is light at the end of the tunnel! Anyway, I am thoroughly impressed with the oral chemo pills. In essence, each dose is 24 little pills. But what they've done, so that you don't have to sit there and take 24 pills, is to put 6 of them into one clear gelcap. That way, I'm only taking 4 pills instead of 24...pretty ingenious. On top of the chemo pills, I'm also on 3 different anti-nausea pills, and anti-seizure meds. I'm on all of them because 2 side effects of the chemo pills are vomiting and seizures...good times! So, I've got the weekend off, and we go back on Monday for the IV high dose chemo. We'll do that for 3 days, then I'll have Thursday "off", then I'll get my stem cells back on Friday the 8th!! So, just keep praying that everything goes according to plan and we stay on schedule!! I'll update y'all when I have more!!

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