7:30 Radiation -- This went well...the "mask" is difficult to adjust to...it holds my head completely immobile, including immobilizing my jaw. It is really tight. I assume it'll get easier -- meaning I'll panic less when it's on.
8:30 Chemo... Well, this started with "hydration", 1 liter of saline/magnesium solution over two hours. Near the end, I took (by mouth) some steroids and anti-nausea medicine and they added some anti-nausea into the drip along with a diuretic. Well, I'd been peeing every half hour, the diuretic dropped it to every 15 minutes. After the liter of saline, they added the bag of Cisplatin which was drained over the next hour. Then, another liter of saline over another two hours. I finished up at 2:30pm.
They said if I get "sick", it will be nausea and that'll most likely come later in the work. There's a chance it won't be bad for the first round of treatment but it probably will be for the next two. We'll see.
I let them leave the needle in the port so I don't get stuck again tomorrow and Wednesday. I see the Chemo doc Wednesday during the hydration treatment. I expect to see the Radiation doc on Thursday after the Radiation treatment.
So, it's radiation every week day at 7:30am. I had chemo today and hydration tomorrow & Weds then it's just radiation until Jan 28 which is the next round of chemo.
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