Wooohoo! first dose of chemo is behind me!

I was initially supposed to get the chemo yesterday morning, but the doctors wanted to double check the placement of the central line. Had to wait on a chest xray to be done. Once we got the green light, to proceed 2 nurses arrived with my IV of chemo -finally getting this show on the road. Both nurses go there double check protocol (very impressive btw) my nurse stops, and walks out. After a few minutes she walks back in and explained to me that pharmacy screwed up. Somehow they didn't read the complete orders from the Doctor and use the correct multipliers used to calculate the dose. They had calculated 25 mg when it should have been 24 mg. Doesn't seem like much, but that amounts to 6% more than was ordered, and this isn't exactly Tylenol.

In the mean time while I wait, i got a whole bunch of visitors. Ching came by, saw the tubes coming out of my arm and just about passed out... seriously he turned whiter than me. I was trying to explain to the really cool procedure they did inserting the central line, i can tell that he looking for safe place to hurl. So i stop :).

Jacques, Kevin, Han, and Linda all stopped by shortly after so we had pretty cool party (by chemo-ward standards) Linda bought me this awesome Caps fleece blanket, and Han is gonna look into getting me a slingbox so that I can watch the Caps during my confinement (TV selection is rather limited here).

Everyone but Kevin had left when they finally arrived with my chemo at about 5 or so. They hooked up this baggy of Idarubicin which looks exactly like sweet and sour sauce. I have to say i was really nervous watching this stuff works its way through my IV lines. Almost expecting a cataclysmic reaction once orange stuff reached my arm. But the whole bag went down with no reaction. Awesome I survived.

Today i woke up feeling pretty good, definitely less hungry and feeling a little less energy than i have had in the past few days. So i guess the chemo is starting to do its job. But the one thing it hasn't touched it is my spirit, and certainty that i am gonna get through this.