Only one more day on mega prednisone dose of 100mg day. Hopefully I can make it through the day without beating anyone up!!!
After having worked myself up into a slight frenzy at the thought of all the "horrors" of chemo I was rather surprised to wake up Tuesday morning feeling Ok. Ok is actually an understatement. I was actually feeling great in spite of having to get up several times to pee!!
The chemo procedure is actually known as CHOP-R an anachronism for the names of the 5 drugs used in the treatment. I wont bore you with all the names and details at this point.
The chemo (Monday Feb 6th) itself took almost 8 hours, start to finish with the first drug, Rituximab requiring a very slow infusion, 3.5. hours due to the risk of allergic reactions such as severe hives and respiratory distress.
Since a couple of the drugs are nephrotoxic a ramp up in fluid intake was necessary- about 10 glasses a day. Sadly they prohibited the inclusion of beer and wine so it's been tea as well as water infused with lemon slices. That hardly compares with a Valpolicella Ripasso but it will have to do for now.
My next session will be 3 weeks hence, hopefully with similarly few side effects.
Boredom seems to continue as my biggest issue and I am somewhat confined to home as my car is in the shop for an engine repair and I am trying to minimize my use of the loaner vehicle.
I did pull out and re-tune a few of my guitars and was saddened to see that the bridge was lifting on my 6 string Tanglewood. Luckily a repair can be done for around $75 so that isn't too painful.
My fingers will need to see some serious shredding action over the next few days so that I can start building callouses again. The relatively high action on my Fender resonator ( dobro) will make sure that happens fairly quickly, assuming I can stand the pain!
Hopefully I can find a little inspiration and maybe crank out a couple of compositions as I work through the process. It's been several years since I seriously wrote anything so it will be a learning process. Hopefully it will be akin to riding a bicycle and will come back fairly quickly.
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