Chemo Cycle One is Finished!

Well, Round One is finished, and other than the fatigue associated with getting up every morning at 5:00 to drive two hours to DC, then two hours back to work, I don't seem to have any bad side effects. Well--almost no bad side effects. I did have to spend most of what has proved to be a BEAUTIFUL Spring day locked up in my office at work, catching up things I didn't get to last week.

So far I've had a different nurse every day, now including Anita, who helped my yesterday. I must be a difficult patient. I have been negligent in not introducing you to Marta, who schedules all the rooms and patients. Blog, Marta. Marta, Blog. I also met Shirleta, the head technician in the pharmacy. Jamela came back from her much-deserved day off and did her usual outstanding job.

It was back into Room 11 yesterday, where I was infused to the crashing of thunder and beat of heavy rain outside the window. A strong system swept through ahead of today's beautiful weather. I was back in the car by 10:00, into driving rain that reduced visibility and slowed DC traffic to around 40 mph (an amazing statistic if you're from around here.)

So ends the first Chemo session. I have to update the calendar, as there was a little oops on the one previously printed. My next session is the last week of this month and not the first week of May as previously reported.

On Monday I go to a local lab to give blood, and will do so every Monday than I'm not getting rituxin and fludarabine. This Wednesday I go back to Dr. Kelly, my local oncologist, just to keep that connection. Not sure what we're going to talk about.

I'm developing a theory to answer the question I said wasn't worth asking: "Why Me?". I'll share more in a few more days.

Have a great weekend.