Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Today felt like it dragged on foreverrrrr. I went into the Cancer Center at 8am and didn’t head home until about 1:30pm. It might sound like a pretty typical day for treatment, but knowing that I only had one chemo med today, I was hoping it was going to be a faster day. Turns out it takes about 3 hours for the Taxol infusion, and for whatever reason, it seemed to take even longer for me. You also have to go through the blood draw first thing in the morning to make sure my levels look good enough to take the treatment, then there’s the waiting for the pre-meds to take effect and finally the actual chemo medicine can be administered.
One of my pre-meds is Benadryl, and the second it was administered I could barely keep my eyes open, so I took a bit of a snooze. I felt drowsy the rest of the day and wasn’t really up for doing much of anything, I’m guessing that was also a big reason why the day felt like it dragged on, because I wasn’t really up for doing anything to pass the time while sitting in my infusion chair. When I got home, Cory and I ate some lunch and then I went upstairs with every intention of getting caught up on work but I could barely keep my eyes open and ended up passing out for another snooze. After Macy got home from daycare we had a nice evening together, she played outside for a while and enjoyed the warm weather. And after she went down for bed Cory and I caught up on The Bachelorette and then came upstairs to fold some laundry and I felt strong enough to play a bit of catch-up and send out some work emails around 11:30pm (sorry folks). But then we turned in for the night and enjoyed some deep sleep.
Round 1 Post-Taxol chemotherapy side effects:
Felt so much better after my Taxol treatment than I usually do after my rounds of A&C.
I was a bit achy on Thursday and felt this restless leg syndrome, discomfort in my legs and muscles at night and had a bit of a hard time sleeping, but never really experienced a big drop off in energy level or fatigue which was a huge change from the AC treatments.
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