First Chemo! 15 Jan

First Chemo Today. very smooth, played scrabble with Siobhan, ate pumpkin bread, antioxidant trail mix, and root veggie potato chips.  The chemo place is conveniently located very near the one manhattan location of Trader Giotto so it is easy to eat well. For those who want to know i am on the ABVD regimen. Here i am making a move on the wonderful Travel Scrabble set Suzanne so generously loaned...

no real nausea or anything right away, i left and went back to work. Around two hours later tho i started to shake a little, and at first thought it was psychosomatic since they told me it might happen. Then the teeth started to chatter, and i couldn't really type, so i thought "hmm, i should give them a call." or should i say "Hi-i-i-i-ii    sho-o-oo-o-u-u-l-d    c-c-c-c-all   th-ththth-them".   They told me to take one of the green pills (yay green pill) and some Benadryl (an antihistamine) and whaddya know? no more shakin'! i jumped on the train to go uptown for a meeting and grabbed a slice and some ginger ale on the way. After about an hour i noticed something different - super energy boost! I met Rogan and Ned, did an install, ate a burger, went back to the office, finished work, started this blog, went home at 1130 still full of fire and chatted with the roomies for an hour before figuring i should settle down. this from a guy who can't usually make it past 1030 lately! i was very excited to get some of the old energy back... until i told the nurses today and they told me that the green pill (dexamethasone) is a steroid and gives you a "boost". Ah well it was worth it i got the work done...