{"id":7237,"date":"2011-11-15T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2011-11-15T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T17:49:43","slug":"chemo-treatment-4-movin-on-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=7237","title":{"rendered":"Chemo Treatment 4-Movin’ On UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 2-I have not updated my chemo journey in a while because of my naivety.\u00a0 I assumed at the start of all of this, once I documented daily during Treatment One that all subsequent treatments would follow the same path. \u00a0\u00a0 Little did I realize, although I was told specifically by my nurse<\/em>, that each treatment would snowball, each becoming increasingly more difficult.<\/p>\n

After treatment 2, where I had a severe reaction to Taxotere, a chemo drug, I thought that round was rough simply because of the reaction.\u00a0 Once they put me on steroids, they woudn’t be quite so bad.\u00a0 Wrong assumption again.\u00a0 Treatment 3 was, by far the most difficult.\u00a0 Maybe because I was alone, as I had to ship the girls out for the week with willing grands and chauffeurs, and Mel was on a business trip in Chicago.\u00a0 I really had nothing to focus my mind on other than feeling terrible.\u00a0 So, I’m going to play naive again this week and hope that because I’ll be keeping my babies at home and Mel is at least a phone call away, it will be smoother.\u00a0 (I know I’m kidding myself, but it’s what I’m banking on for now.)<\/p>\n

My treatment yesterday went smoothly. No reaction, (although today I look like a sunburned chipmunk thanks to the steroids.) Kacy stopped by SCOA and after my treatment, we all went out to eat for an early dinner.\u00a0 Mel wanted to do a bit of shopping for the funeral home and I even lasted through that.\u00a0 (Mel only gets out to “real stores” once in a while, so when we hit up Target, World Market and Bed Bath and Beyond, he was way too consumed.\u00a0 He thought we needed anything and everything he saw.\u00a0 I’ve got get him out more.)<\/p>\n

Today, I’m tired.\u00a0 I’m taking it easy.\u00a0 My friend (and nurse), April stopped by to give me that blasted Nulasta shot, which makes my body get better, but makes me feel like the Wicked witch of the West with a house dumped right on top of me.\u00a0 My saving grace is that by Friday, I’ll be back to normal (hoping) and I’ll have two weeks of great days!\u00a0 Then, drumroll please……..only two more treatments to go!<\/p>\n

Durell, my favorite check-in guy at SCOA, with his deep Barry White voice, scheduled my dates for December.<\/p>\n

Treatment 5 on December 5 then my final treatment on December 28!\u00a0 So, I have a date.\u00a0 I’ll be ringing that bell before the new year begins!\u00a0 Yay!<\/p>\n

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Day 2-I have not updated my chemo journey in a while because of my naivety.\u00a0 I assumed at the start of all of this, once I documented daily during Treatment One that all subsequent treatments would follow the same path. \u00a0\u00a0 Little did I realize, although I was told specifically by my nurse, that each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7240,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}