Well week 2 went pretty well, with the Treatment only lasting 2.5 hours. I slept through most of it and woke up as the Nurse was removing the Needle from my Port. My Stomach was upset, but not as bad as it had been. This week I see Dr. Schaefer on Wednesday afternoon, then treatment on Thursday morning. This week's treatment will be 3 hours long, since I'll be getting the Avastin, which usually upsets my stomach to the point that it feels like I'm in a spin cycle.
While getting treated last week, another patient had just received her Port and the Nurse was instructing her on caring for it and making that the patient didn't pull the steri-strips off the incision and to let them fall off. The Nurse was going through the do's and don'ts when I chimed in that the first time the needle is inserted to the port that the patient will be a little more sensitive to it, but after that the skin will start to toughen up. The Nurse told me to stop imtimafating the patients and I responded back that I was making sure that there was truth in advertising and we all had a lauugh at that.
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