Day 41 port and chemo finished

Yesterday I arrived at the hospital around 3pm. I asked the nurse on the floor if she was scheduled for chemo the next day and she said no orders had been written. We thought she would come back to the same room and then the next day they would transfer her to the cancer floor for chemo.

They didn't take her to O.R. prep until 4:30pm. Her surgery was scheduled at 5pm but didn't start until after 7pm.

While we were waiting in O.R. prep her chart was there and the nurse said I could look at it so we read over the surgery notes again and my husband and friend verified what I thought about things being said in the notes that were not passed on to us.

The oncologist nurse came in while we were waiting and said she would write the orders for her to have the chemo done the next day and would call the cancer floor to see if they had a bed so she could go directly there after surgery and then she wouldn't have to wait the next day and possibly not get the chemo right away.

After she went into surgery we had to go get all her things from her old room and tried to take them to her new room but it wasn't ready so we had to take them to the surgerical waiting room and wait and wait. The surgery went well but she didn't get into her room until 8:45pm.

Because she hadn't had her meds since the morning before her blood pressure was 176/98.

I asked before we left to see if she was having chemo for sure the next day. They told us yes but didn't know when it would start.

I got there this morning around 8:30am. They didn't get the chemo started until 11:45am as they had to get all her meds which took a while and then they gave her all the pre meds, benadryl, pepcid, steriods and a med for nausea.

They started the 1st chemo slow, Paclitaxel, http://www.chemocare.com/bio/taxol.asp. This was the worse of the two. Her blood pressure was up and down but she did VERY well with the chemo. After 2 1/2 hours she said to me "when are they coming to get me". I asked her what she meant and she said when are they coming to get me to take me to chemo. I told her she had already been taking it 2 1/2 hours. Her eyes got so big it was funny. It took almost 3 hours for the taxel. Then they flushed for almost an hour before the next chemo drug carboplatin, http://www.chemocare.com/bio/carboplatin.asp. This one went fast around an hour and then she was done.

She slept through much of the 2 chemos and then was hungry. She really doesn't like hosptial food but it was REALLY storming today so couldn't go get something out.

We are hoping they will release her Saturday. They put her back onto her coumdin today so she can get that level back where it should be.