Chemotherapy: Cycle 3, Day 1
Today started my third cycle of chemotherapy. The first day of the cycle is always the longest. In all, I was there about 5 hours getting multiple infusions. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be about two hours each.
Today’s infusion was uneventful. Everything went well. Although part of the infusions are drugs to curtail the nausea, I still became nauseous by mid-late afternoon. I tried one of my pills, but it didn’t really seem to help. I tried taking a nap, but the nausea remained, plus I got a headache. Went for another walk and that helped a little. I took my bedtime nausea pill around 8:30 - and here I am an hour later and the nausea has calmed down enough that I think I’ll be able to fall asleep after I finish this post.
We learned today that at the end of this cycle (on Thursday) I will receive another drug called Neulasta. It is a white blood cell booster designed to help reduce the risk of infection because of a low white blood cell count caused by my chemotherapy.
It was still dark when we hit the trail this morning, but daylight arrived within 30 minutes of our start. The darkness gave a different perspective to our walk.
A walk in the dark…….
Just after sunrise
Sunset on tonight’s walk.
Sunset tonight