I am delighted to be writing because it means I am joining the world once again! I have been in some other place since Friday afternoon. Five different drugs went into this round's cocktail including all the keep-you-well drugs that they give you to counter the make-you-sick-as-a-dog drugs. I settled into my easy chair Friday morning with about a dozen other patients, and my port went to work as planned. It was painless at that point, and any anxiety I felt came from the anticipation of what awful things were going to start happening to my body that I wouldn't be able to control. Visions of the Exorcist flashed but it was quite uneventful.
Cut to Friday afternoon. Had lunch. At home. Then it was like someone flipped a switch, and all I wanted to do was throw up or sleep. Luckily, there were more keep-you-well drugs, so sleep won out most of the time and the overwhelming nausea could be kept at bay.
Break for visit to hospital on Saturday for a shot of keep-you-well something or other that made my bones ache. (This was planned - 24 hours after cocktails.)
Then back home to my cocktail fog. It started to lift about Monday afternoon, when it became a piercing headache that would disappear as fast as it started. By about noon today it subsided, and I have felt better since. I am elated!
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