Easy Peasy

Knowing what to expect has had a huge beneficial effect on my chemotherapy.

It's been only two days since I began round two, but so far Dr. Motzer's prediction that the first round it usually the worst has been correct.  Of course it helps that the rest of the family is healthy (knock on wood), but even outside of that it has been a couple of smooth days.  

I successfully reused my catheter from yesterday for all of today and then removed it.  Tomorrow I'll go to the back to the Fairfield facility to the nurse who seems to be most capable of placing a solid PVC (peripheral vein catheter), and I think I'll maintain the schedule of using the Fairfield office on Monday and Wednesday, and the Trumbull office on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.  On Friday I'll probably just get the butterfly style IV line, which should be OK since it only needs to last that day.

I've been quite tired both yesterday and today, but so far not terribly bloated; that will probably come later in the week.  Fortunately I've been able to sleep well, which was not the case at certain points previously.  However it seems to be best if I don't nap in the afternoon, and if at night I stay asleep, as I've found that when something disturbs me it has been difficult to fall back asleep again.

The other thing that has happened is that even though my hair is short, my pillow case is totally covered in hair in the morning.  If fact I can tell which side I slept on, because those areas are patchy.  This morning my left side and the back of my head are blonder in patches, not because my hair has changed color but just because more scalp is visible due to those areas being thinner.