Well I’m officially switched over to intravenous treatment. I went in for a treatment yesterday and it went pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n
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After they got me all checked in and checked my blood counts (which were all normal), they hooked me up to a saliene IV first. Then they followed that up with some kind of anti-nausea drug (I didn’t get the name). After that bag was emptied, they hooked me up to 1500mg of cytoxan.<\/p>\n
The whole thing took around 4 hours (including an extra 1\/2 hour waiting in the waiting room!). Luckily, I got a “semi-private” room away from the main room which had a television on. Daytime TV is mind-numbing!!! I was prepared with a few books to read, and was able to finish my lastest read Addicted to Mediocrity<\/u> by Franky Schaeffer.<\/p>\n
They gave be a prescription for Deltasone (50 mg twice a day for 5 days after the cytoxan), which I believe is some kind of steroid (Mom, or any of the nurses in the family want to correct me here?). The paper I got from the pharmacy indicates that it is used in many ways, among which are to control allergic reactions. I never took it when I was on the oral form of cytoxan.<\/p>\n
[update on 10\/2\/02]<\/strong> I should have updated this page some time ago. Both my mother and my cousin Kimberly Neuhouser responded letting me know that I was right about it being a kind of steriod. This particular one is used mainly with other anti-nausea drugs and is mostly used in conjunction with chemotherapy.<\/em><\/p>\n I took a Zofran this morning with breakfast and haven’t really had too much in the way of nausea so far (a little earlier in the mid-morning, but it passed). I’ve been getting a lot of sleep over the past two days, so that’s probably helping as well.<\/p>\n My work has been very supportive. I’ve been using my VPN connection to login and do some work. I am also able to correspond via email to problems that arise.<\/p>\n Let me say thanks again for all who have been praying for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well I’m officially switched over to intravenous treatment. I went in for a treatment yesterday and it went pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricks_cancer","tag-ricks-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}