Wednesday, September 10, 2008

First Treatment 9-9-08

Rachel had her first treatment on Tuesday, September 9th.  
She was accompanied by Jan (Mom), Kelly (Sister) and Eric (Brother).... she had visits from friends Kate and Kirsten while she was there.
Rachel's treatments are in the office of her oncologist in Pittsburg... she'll have them every other week.

They gave her a sedative... which is common for patients, especially younger ones.... they also gave her anti-nausea, steroids and benadryl in addition to her chemo treatment.

The treatments take about 2 hours and she slept through most of it... she woke up enough to come home... then went back to sleep until about 7pm.... she woke up hungry and asked for "Bamboo" which is code in our family for sweet and sour chicken... so like I did for my pregnant wife years ago... you shut up and go get in the car!

She ate great all nite... adding ice cream and caramel apples to the list and slept pretty good... 

So far so good!

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