Day 2 and Some Facts For You!

I slept through the entire night last night for the first time in quite some time - usually I wake up with my shoulder killing me and pop more pain pills. I guess the combination of the pain pills and all the other drugs from the day knocked me out cold from about 11 to 5:30. This was a good thing and a bad thing. I try and stay on schedule with the antinausea meds round the clock so the nausea doesn't sneak in on me because, yes, you can get sick right after getting your chemo but you're not in the clear for a few days. From what I gather, you have about 3 days of feeling bad before you feel better, and anything that I can do to keep from feeling bad over the next few days, I'm going to do it. At 5:30 I popped my pills and then I popped a few more around 11:30 and so far I'm doing alright. I feel like I'm on the brink of being sick, but I think as long as I keep on the meds and on the hydration, I'll be alright. I've slept the majority of the day away, only waking up when Warner came home for lunch and for a little bit when I take more drugs. And obviously now. I've started looking at chemo scarves, because in this blasted New Orleans summer sun, my head is going to FRY! I've found some really cute, kind of expensive ones so I'm still looking for now. I emailed my friend Haley, who lives in some place that probably doesn't exist except for her mind (just kidding, she lives in the land of far far away and EVERYONE knows that place exists) since she went through the same chemo I'm getting. She gave me some good advice as to what she went through. She started losing her hair right around 2 weeks, so we'll see how I make out with that. So, it's really nice to have her as a reference. Anyway, there's not really much more going on around here. Just doing the cancer thing again.