Only Four More Chemo Treatments To Go

I was planning to convert my diary to blog and work up to real time back dating the entry's, For now I'm going to abandon that idea and jump to real time. I will try to fill in when I can.
I've been trying hard to make cancer treatment look easy and I've been impressive with my success. Tuesday I started my fourth Infusion of Fluorouracil and Oxaliplatin two potent Chemotherapy drugs well known for kicking ass. The side effects of many chemo drugs and particularly Oxaliplatin are cumulative, that is they start from how bad they got the last cycle and get worse from there. Tuesday I left the hospital with a Chemo pump and the home infusion nurse was scheduled to come to my house to do my "take down" Thursday at 5:15pm. That means shutting off the chemo and placing everything in the hazmat container, flushing the chemo port with saline, injecting Heparin into the port to prevent clots and then removing the needle. when I called to verify the schedule they said they thought I was going to do it myself this time. I've been training but they have resisted to this point so I was a little surprised. I managed it with no problem. It does take a while to get the needle stick to stop bleeding since it was just filled with stuff to prevent clotting, it took about 10 Min's to quit.
Chemo fatigue is starting to take its toll on me, this week I had a client tell me to go home and go to bed. I must have looked bad. Fatigue is doing a number on me. I have noticed problems with fine motor skills too, I have the shakes. Saturday I was tired and laid down around 5pm, when I woke up it was after 10am Sunday. I didn't feel exactly rested but I did feel better. I tried to do some work today but my energy drains fast. The good news is I'm not spending all my time in the bathroom and bouts of nausea are weak and rarely stay long. I haven't mentioned that I spent Thursday night sleeping on the bathroom floor hoping I could make it 2 feet in time, It almost worked, by morning I had taken 5 doses of anti-Diarrhea medicine and was well on the way toward normal. Good thing too, cause the maximum is 6 doses in 24 hours. I was up to over an hour between sit downs by the morning and was able to go get some work done.