Day one of chemo is done.  I had the Rituxan part of the cocktail today.  They loaded me up with benadryl, and started the drip.  I was ok, until about an hour into it, I got the shakes and chills, pretty badly.  It felt like a really bad flu.  I needed about 4 warm blankets and my teeth chattered terribly. My mom said I turned white as a ghost.  I cried, bc I hate that flu feeling, and I wanted it to go away.  They had to give me some more benadryl and some steroid shot, and I was fine after about an hour. They were able to restart the drip after that.  I was there for a total of 7 hours.  Whew.  After today, though, they can speed up the future treatments, to about 1/2 that time.  The reaction I had was pretty typical, it happens to most people after about an hour into treatment, so I was very timely :). But now, it shouldnt happen anymore. It was my body's fight against the cancer cells.  The drug was blowing up the cancer, like clay pigeons. Ka blewy!! Ha HA! I've got you now!

Tomorrow I go in for the CHOP portion of the chemo, it should only take 45 min to an hour, and it may make me feel ucky. But I got my scripts for the good nausea stuff, and I'll start taking that tomorrow.

Thank you to Jamie for stopping by on your day off! It was so nice to chat for a while, it broke up the day! Maybe you need some chemo for that shoulder pain of yours.  You can't have mine, though.  Get your own.