Mon. Nov. 20th

Today was a long day but fairly good one. We arrived at the hospital around 9:30 and it's quite a wait. You line up to register when you get there, than you go into a line to have your blood taken than you wait in the waiting room to be called by the nurse to take your height and weight (which has gone up a kg, yipee) and than put in a room patient room where you meet with the dietitian, who was very happy with Meghan's weight gain and her eating. Than the doctor comes in and goes over everything with us regarding her protocol, any problems or concerns and let's us know what's happening next. The nurse will come back and check BP which has also been fine and go over any questions and give us prescriptions, etc. Oh yeah and in between all this we had to go for an ECG which too was fine before they will do the chemo. Then we wait to go to the IV room where they will do the quick chemo or access the port, but in Meghan's case today they just accessed the port and hooked up the nausea med, than we proceeded to the daycare room where they do the longer chemo but of course the meds weren't up yet so we had to wait for pharmacy to send it, but there were no beds available so we went down the hall to the teen lounge until the chemo came up and they hooked it up to the IV and we went back to the teen lounge where we waited for the chemo to go through the IV and than they had to wait to flush it with saline and than finally at 2:30 we were free to go. Oh yeah and did I mention that Meghan HATES having her port accessed and the nurse-in-training today missed her port and jabbed in her chest (not on purpose of course) than the other nurse tried and she got it no problem, thank goodness :)

So we came home with 4 new meds not to mention the other ones we already are taking, no stress in my life, yeah right! Her one chemo med has to be given 2 hours after she's eaten right before bed for 5 nights, by me wearing a mask and gloves and there's 5 1/2 tablets so one has to be cut with a pill cutter which can't be used by any other meds because this is a chemo drug. Do you think I'm gonna sleep well? I hope we both do!

Michelle