Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Round 2 – Chemo Day 2


Sunday May 5th, 2013

Well Round 1 went very well with no hang ups. However part of the plan is to monitor my vitals throughout the process. For example on Friday I didn’t have my Rituximab ready until 9pm. Once that was done I could start my first drip of chemo, which by the way is 24x7 until I’ve gone through my 4 bags of chemo. Friday since we started very late, I didn’t get my first chemo treatment until 2am and since they were checking my vitals every half hour I barely slept.

I’m getting different meds that help balance the side effects of the chemo and one of those is the steroid Prednisone. That may have kept me awake Saturday night because I barely slept an hour and a half. Another challenge that I am facing as well as losing the battle to is constipation. It’s been 4 days and I’m sure you have a cat that has had a more impressive movement than me right now. The guys at work would be happy with that, so would the cleaning lady, but it’s not doing me any good holding in all that waste while packing the pipe with more.

Yesterday they gave me the strongest stuff they got and aside from a few farts they can’t pop the cork from the bottle. I even did a mineral oil enema to grease the runway, but still can’t pass the cork down the line. I haven’t had a movement since Friday morning and that was a minor one not my usual zoo animal movement that reigns laughter around work.

They gave me Ativan last night so I can sleep because in the past 36 hours I’ve only slept about 4 hours. Sunday evening at around 11pm once the Ativan kicked in I slept until 7am so I got a good 7 hours rest that was long overdue.

Monday morning I was able to get a soap suds enema that took care of business and things are back to normal. Now the laxatives and stool softeners can work more effectively. More about Monday on the Monday post.

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