Back to the Hospital (October 16th) - First Chemotherapy Treatment

We arrived at the hospital at 7am. We met with the doctor and he went through the entire process. He will be getting 3 different meds for Chemo; one he will get the first day only, one he will get on the first and second day, and one he will get for the first 4 days. On the 5th day he will get a shot that will help with the blood counts and then he should be able to go home. Each drug does have different side effects that we will have to monitor. He will also be getting some preventative medicines throughout the treatments that should help to keep some of the major side effects not be as bad.

Around 11:00am they did take him into surgery. They implanted a port into his chest. The port is a catheter that they place into the jugular vein through his chest which allows them draw blood, place IV’s, and where he will get his chemo. He came out of recovery around 3:00. They began his Chemo treatment around 5:00 and it lasted until about 9:00. He did get very sick afterwards.