Tag: Port
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Chemotherapy: Round 1, Day 3
Chemo steroids are keeping me awake in the middle of the night, so what the hell? Let’s try to write an update. 😆 I have my OmmWriter music on in the background via YouTube Music. Anyone familiar with OmmWriter? It’s a distraction-free writing program I used a bunch back in the day. Steroids Anyway, yes.…
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Education Session, Chemo Haul, Port Placement Surgery and Impending Chemotherapy
I feel like I’m so behind on my updates! Let me catch you up on everything. The Education Session Our chemo education session was on Friday, November 1. It was initially scheduled as an in-person appointment with the oncologist’s nurse practitioner (NP), but she was at home with COVID, so the office called me to…
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Updated Appointment Schedule (Including First Chemo Session)
Happy Halloween and Merry Samhain, loves! 🎃 Instead of partaking in festivities, I’m researching what kind of stuff I’ll need to have for chemotherapy and starting to search for those things on Amazon to put in my cart. I’ll probably end up with quite the chemo haul. 😆 I scheduled my port placement surgery and…
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Chemo is Officially Official
I mean, that’s basically the TLDR. Chemo is officially official. We saw my medical oncologist for the first time today. Three weeks to the day since surgery. It had to be three weeks because that’s how long the results of the Oncotype test would take. I forgot about that test, actually, but I awoke to…