First day of Chemo

We arrived at the Doctors off at 8am this morning and saw the Dr. about 8:45am. He had what we thought was great news. The tests that I took yesterday were all negative for any more cancer anywhere in my body. I've now been viewed by three different methods and they all say the same thing. I've got cancer, but it is a sarcoma and it is located in my bicep.

What they gave me first was two medicines for nausea and vomiting. After that they gave me 45 minutes of DTIC which is the medicine that I will receive each day for the next 19 treatments. Then she gave me the scary stuff. It was in two very large syringes and it was red. The scary part was the outfit she changed into to give me the stuff. I asked her why and she said she didn't want to get any on her and I sure didn't want any of it on me. She put it in the Port and then kept asking me, "Do you feel any burning any where on your skin. That's a real fun question to ask me. Fortunately the response was always NO THANK GOD!!!!!!

The whole process took from 8am to about 1pm. Not bad when they said it would only be about two or three hours. They said tomorrow should be shorter because I only get the DTIC and just one nausea medication