I Went to School

So on Tuesday I had my chemo teaching. It’s basically a 1:1 with my Oncologist’s Physician’s Assistant. She literally goes through step by step what is going to happen then writes up a document for me. This includes the 5 medications I will need during the lovely process. This includes drugs for everything from diarrhea, insomnia, sore throat, and of course nausea. The great thing is that before they even start giving me the chemo they will run a cocktail full of pre-drugs to combat all those side effects. I like how they call it a cocktail as if it’s a drink (and we all know I’m a fan of drinks)! They run the first infusion rather slowly because they want to make sure you don’t have any allergic reactions. So I’ll be at the breast cancer center for like 4 hours.  The place where I do my infusions is pretty nice. They have about 10 or 11 semi-private “rooms”. Everyone gets their own TV and there’s a chair for a visitor. I have told my mother than under no circumstance is she allowed to come with me on my first infusion. Don’t get me wrong I Love my mother to death …but she drives me a bit crazy. So my sister has been drafted for the job.

My 10 year high school reunion is on Saturday so I think it’s a good way to wrap up my “normalcy”. I’m not expecting to be housebound once I get started. With that said I do have to be careful about exposing myself to a lot of people. Everyone has germs and with chemo my immune system is going to be lower. Everyone knows i’m big on germs anyway so it’s no biggie for me. I just have to keep the hugs to a minimum. I don’t like handshakes anyway (germs) so that’s cool. So as I’m sitting here typing this post I’m actually at my mom’s doctor visit. The lady next to me sits down and starts coughing. Then she’s hacking and continuing to cough. She’s covering it up as much a possible but come on. So every time she coughs I hold my breath and turn away. Ten minutes later she covers her mouth with a paper towel. I’m going to need the nurses to call her into the office ASAP and get her out of my vicinity. At least I know she’s getting chemo so she’s probably not like sick..sick (or she would be in the hospital). Ohh and as I get home from taking my mom to her appointment I look at my driver front side and someone totally hit my car! Not like a big dent or anything but a scratch and scuff. It looks like I scuffed my shoes up but instead it’s my car..SMH. So now I have to try and see if I can get it buffed out. Seeing that I needed a good wax any we’ll see. Like they say no good deed goes unpunished!