You walk into a room with about 10 other people getting chemo. They take your temperature, blood pressure, and start an IV. It only took them 3 times to get an IV in me. I guess my veins didn’t want the chemo and now my arm looks like Justin beat me up. =) They then started me on a saline drip and added Benadryl a few minutes later. Once the Benadryl bag was empty I had to wait 30 minutes for it to take effect.
The Taxotere was next; they slowly add it in for 15 minutes to make sure that you don’t have an allergic reaction to it. Unfortunately when they took my temperature it was high (99.2) so I had to continue the slow drip for another 15 minutes. Once my temperature was back to normal they gave me the rest of the drug that took an hour. Next was the cyclophosphamide this took another hour.
What a long visit. I got there at 3pm and left at 6:45pm. I was so done!
