Check off #7

Treatment #7 has come and gone this week. It feels good to have one more treatment checked off.

Shane came with me to my appointment. He took the day off work to be with me. I don't think he was thrilled to watch chemo being infused into his wife but I told him he at least needed to experience this with me one time. He was a good sport even if the appointment took 2 hours longer then it normally does for some odd reason. We have been listening to a book on cd and were able to cover a lot of it during chemo time.

The bad news is as soon as I got home I came down with another fever (like the last treatment.) It lasted 4 hours and then went away. When I called my doctor this time he was pretty sure that I had some infection in my port and that my port would most likely need to come out. As much as I dreaded the port being put in me, the idea of it coming out early was NOT good news. I would either get the rest of my chemo through veins in my arms (my veins are small and floppy) or take the port out and put another one back in a few weeks (oh yeah, remember how much fun that surgery was...and I get to do it twice??) So the short of the long story is, they did more blood work the next day and as it stands today I will not have to get my port out. YEAH!!! It might just be a reaction to the chemo and not an infection. So they are going to watch me through my next treatment and see how it goes. I can put up with a fever for 4 hours.

Other then that the treatment and side effects have been right on schedule.