Just waiting

I'm in the patient education room before I go in for the chemo. I talked with someone (Medical oncologist's assistant? I have her card.) just before coming here about what to expect from chemo. She said that I should be fine--that with taxotere you don't usually feel nausea and with carboplatin it's mild, if you feel anything. I have 4 different anti-nausea meds so I think that's covered.

I thought the chemo was going to be 6 hours, but now they tell me that taxotere is 1 hr, not 4 hrs unless I have a reaction, carboplatin is 1 hr, and herceptin for the first treatment is 1.5 hr but later it's 0.5 hrs. With the premeds, Sam, Mom, and I will be out of here in 4 hours. Yay! We can eat early afterwards, although we brought bags of food with us. We were going to have a picnic here. I even have pillows and blankets.

I had my first radiation therapy this morning. It was a breeze. I just laid there and used the ABS breathing machine. It took longer than I expected because the radiation was given in at least 4 different positions. I feel great. Only thing is that I have 14 more treatments, and they scheduled them all at 8:45 am. I'm so not a morning person.