Today has finally arrived. It's been somewhat eventful. When I arrived on the floor it was very... non Disney. I'm used to seeing lots of color and cartoon characters all over the place, but here it's different, just beige walls and a few Valentine's Day decorations. It's very quiet on the floor. I don't hear any babies or kids playing or screaming which is good and bad. I heard a lot of the same information by at least 4 different people. It seems okay so far.
I had to get a triple lumen catheter put in and it was very uncomfortable.The point of having one of these is to easily administer my treatment and medication. They didn't put me under anesthesia like they would with a port or a broviac. They numbed my neck with lidocaine which burned for awhile. Then they made a small incision to insert the catheter in. But when they did that I felt my heart start to race and the monitor I was hooked up to went crazy. They kept moving it up and down in my neck and I could feel it and the whole time my heart was beating so quickly I thought something terrible was going to happen. It turns out that it's supposed to be like, that's how they know that they have it in the right spot.
I'll post some pictures of it later. Right now my dressing is messed up.
I start chemo at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning and it will run for about six days. Next Friday will be the big transplant day.
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