Chemo incoming...gulp
Aug. 7th, 2013 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrChemo starts a week from today tomorrow.
We really don't feel ready. At least I don't. (It doesn't help that in that same week we have to pick Delia up from camp and get Fiona off to England, and plan a college visit trip to Iowa, and...) We've been looking around the house at various projects that Rob had planned to do this summer that wouldn't be feasible to do after chemo started, and...blast, we're probably not going to get to those. Rob sat down last night to go through the binder the clinic gave us, a sort of Your Friendly Introduction to Chemo. It was very sobering. He kept reading alarming little tidbits aloud to me:
"Hmm. This one drug in my chemo regime is the same chemical they use in mustard gas."
"Any...effluvia from me for 48 hours after treatment--vomit, diarrhea, and so on--apparently should be treated sort of like toxic waste. Handle soiled clothing or bed linens with rubber gloves and keep away from other laundry. Wash twice. Close the lid of the toilet when flushing, and flush twice. Anything wiped up has to be handled in separate trash."
Then there's the list of symptoms. Gulp.
Plus, apparently we have to go do a lot of shopping.
I hope to get the CaringBridge Support Team set up sometime in the next week.
We really don't feel ready. At least I don't. (It doesn't help that in that same week we have to pick Delia up from camp and get Fiona off to England, and plan a college visit trip to Iowa, and...) We've been looking around the house at various projects that Rob had planned to do this summer that wouldn't be feasible to do after chemo started, and...blast, we're probably not going to get to those. Rob sat down last night to go through the binder the clinic gave us, a sort of Your Friendly Introduction to Chemo. It was very sobering. He kept reading alarming little tidbits aloud to me:
"Hmm. This one drug in my chemo regime is the same chemical they use in mustard gas."
"Any...effluvia from me for 48 hours after treatment--vomit, diarrhea, and so on--apparently should be treated sort of like toxic waste. Handle soiled clothing or bed linens with rubber gloves and keep away from other laundry. Wash twice. Close the lid of the toilet when flushing, and flush twice. Anything wiped up has to be handled in separate trash."
Then there's the list of symptoms. Gulp.
Plus, apparently we have to go do a lot of shopping.
I hope to get the CaringBridge Support Team set up sometime in the next week.