Friendship and Chemo begins

I felt compelled today to exapand a little on my friends, Steven and Analisa. We had a fabulous weekend with them. I have already written about the weekend, so I will write a little about the people. Pammy and Analisa were good friends in Highschool, they lost touch and reconnected after a number of years of seperation. Children were grown and life was well into the middle years. reestablishing contact and a personal relationship with these two has been one of the greatest joys of our life. I count Steven as my most valued friend and I know Pammy feels the same about Analisa. We are incredibly blessed to have these people in our lives. Yesterday Chemo started, Texas Oncology has taken something so Chaotic and disorgonised like Cancer and turned it into business of course more than that they have organised Chaos. Everything they do is well run, they have people to handle every aspect. I have been continually impressed by their professionalism, respect for the patient and their Compassion. I went yesterday prepared to spend the entire day, I had an appt with my Oncologist first, she is a very caring woman and is willing to address every issue. I then went to the infusion room which is simply a large room with 35 chairs the chairs are very comfortable and meant to be sat in or reclined for hours at a time. Erika and I had planned lunch I brought things that could be microwaved, right before we started eating they put the Chemo drug in and not too long after I had a reaction. The reaction was hardly noticable at first, Erika noticed and asked if aything was wrong. I stopped eating and sat back for a moment and I think I said something about feeling a little weird. I let it go a little longer and then told Erika to go get someone Because I felt like someone had Cranked the thermostat. for thirty minutes or so things were a little crazy, they got the reaction under control, switched to another drug and all was good to go. I will have to go next Tues and have another treatment, then treatments will be 2 weeks apart, I trust the Dr to have my needs well in hand, This journey has really just begun, I am sticking around for the long Haul.

Always with love

Tony.