Yondelis - Round One

Today we headed in to Dr. Thompson's office for my appointment, which was early.  I just love and appreciate Dr. Thompson so much.  He said if I wanted to wait and not do this he would back me to the hilt.  However, the pros for going ahead are the facts that I'm in good health and have the ability to weather the effects of the chemo right now is better than as the disease progresses.  And, systemic chemo is more effective on smaller tumors (usually) so capitalizing from when the tumors have shrunk from the gem/tax is a smart idea.  It was never really in doubt anyway...I felt that this was what we should do at the scans prior to my last...actually felt that we have the Lord in the mix.  So...it's on board.

Dr. Thompson's team called the hospital pharmacy to see if they had the chemo and they were informed that it was on a FedEx truck and should be delivered before noon.  So dr. Thompson recommended that we go get breakfast and then head to the hospital.  Which we did.  We got here about 11ish and by the time I got checked in, got to my room, had vitals done, port accessed, and pre boarding of anti-nausea meds and steroids, it was 3:30ish before the yondelis was actually flowing.  Looks like my 24 hour infusion will use up two days instead of one...that would be the advantage of home infusion...but hey...I played phase 10 with Rich and watched tv along with a little reading...not such a bad deal really.

So far, so good...except my blood pressure has been spiking.  Yay blood pressure meds.  My understanding is that the side effects really won't be too evident for a day or two either.  Dr. Thompson has me returning next Thursday for blood work too.

In the meantime we have enjoyed the love, support, texts, and calls of family and friends.  How did we get to be so blessed???