The big drip day!!!

Wow what a day.  8 am to 4 am sitting in a nice big easy chair watching about 8 plastic bags with my picture on them dripping down into my new “spigot”.  Okay, port!   It started with the first of many compassionate, and very nice medical people giving us pages of side effects to get ready for, and not one of them mentioned anything about increased bank accounts, new urges to play classical piano, or even younger softer skin… darn.  So I sat like a model patient and took my drips.  A big bag of Chemo, then a few bags of flush and other “don’t get sick stuff” and then my special “Chemo to Go’ bag.   A pump, my very own pump that is sitting here buzzing and pumping away right now.  Then after Mary, my very own “Home Infusion Nurse” (since pump nurse just doesn’t give her the respect she deserves) hooked me up, I went into my first Radiation treatment.  Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock would have been challenged by the coordinates and adjustments and scientific figures that needed to be input to the computer before it took over and began full scale attack on the Klingon Tumor.  And then it was all over for today and I get to go back tomorrow, and the next day for 6 weeks.   The machine really does look like something on the Enterprise so my trust factor went way up.  Tonight my phone rang often with so many who care and again I just have to tell you all how much that means to me.  Them my wonderful men’s group came over and with them, a LARGE chocolate milk shake from UDF.  Oh what a great bunch.  They all know how much their prayers and visit meant to me.  So far I don’t feel so bad and hope that my attitude and all this preventive medicine will help keep the Alien  Crud out of my future.  Tomorrow is another day, so until then, God bless you all and know that I love you.