My Saga with Leukemia

Chemo Round 3

Bright and early the next morning, the chemo was started. I would be receiving two bags a day...one early morning, one early evening for five days.

The chemo has never made me sick but I did notice on this occasion that my blood pressure became elevated after each chemo session. As I was lying in the bed, looking up at the bag of chemo, I nearly choked to read there was 3,750 mgs. of drugs in that small bag. Yikes! I'm usually so sensitive to drugs that I really worried about getting such strong doses of medicine.

Being tethered to the IV pole was a pain...I had thought I would be free of it between chemo infusions, but most of the time it was used to infuse a saline solution to keep me well hydrated between the doses of chemo.



Many thanks to all who are displaying a "Butterfly for Judy"