“GET ME A PILL!!!” “GET ME A PILL!!”…..

Well – ok – maybe she didn’t say it twice, and she most definitely didn’t shout - but - I can say that it was a requirement to absolutely be fulfilled..  I complied.   After last session’s kinked VAD line incident, tomorrow isn’t promising to necessarily be a smooth ride so the anxiety level is on the upside this evening.   If you don’t recall, the VAD is the primary chemo delivery pathway and is actually a subcutaneous implant with a direct central line connection into the superior vena cava (or inferior vena cava – I forget).. 

From the pile-o-tissues, it looks like it’s time to get Ms. Tracy off to bed..  “We” have an 8:00 meeting with Dr. Hammond, an 8:30 VAD draw (fancy speak for the bi-weekly blood-letting) and then a 9:00 curtain draw for the Red Devil and it’s bastard cousins Cytoxan and Avastin (or at least what we think may be Avastin).

Anyway – tomorrow marks another milestone – the completion of the Adriamycin / Cytoxan / Avastin regimen.   Time off for Turkey, and then off to the races again with a twelve-week long weekly Taxol series.   From what we’ve been told – Taxol is a “walk in the park” compared to the A-C cycle.  The park of course, is very unforgiving place with lions, tigers, and bears.  Oh my.