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Navelbine is given through my chest port at the medical center, and it's a "push", meaning the nurse spends about 6 minutes holding the medicine in a syringe and slowly pushing it into my line. Easy peasy. I also had a 30 minute Herceptin infusion today, so it was a much shorter and less eventful trip to the medical center than 3 weeks ago.
Some people have asked me about the allergic reaction to Doxil I had. Immediately I had trouble breathing, my face swelled up and I had back pain. The nurses came right away, and the benadryl and pain medication kicked in and I was back to normal in a few minutes (though loopy as hell for the rest of the day).
I forgot to write with the results of my bone scan. Thankfully that didn't turn up any new surprises. So I still "just" have the two spots of cancer in my spine and left hip that the abdominal CT scan turned up last month.
I have no pain or side effects from the cancer - all the side effects I've experienced so far are just from the treatments. And right now I don't have any side effects from the treatments besides maybe a little fatigue (who knows?) So I'm in a good place.
Assuming I tolerate this plan OK, my oncologist thinks we'll do another scan after three rounds of it (that's in about 8-9 weeks).
In the meantime I've got plenty else to do and think about. Work has picked up more lately, the girls have dance performance dress rehearsals and shows this week, Father's Day is coming up and C's 13th birthday is the 20th, the day after the last day of school.
