Thursday, April 23, 2009

As I write this, it's 9 am on Chemo Day 2. Sandy is getting meds through an IV into the port that was installed a while back. She's getting drugs for allergies, upset stomach and restless legs. Next she'll get the first chemical for three hours, the second for one and we should be able to go home.

Here's a picture that I took of her about an hour ago in "Infusion South," a large room in the Duchossois (dutch-uh-SWAH) Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center (A.K.A. DCAM at UCMC).



















We were lucky to find on street parking this morning, but then we'd left home at 6 to ensure it and we thought Sandy would have to have another blood draw. It turned out that she didn't, so we just spent time waiting to get into the infusion room.

Now it's about 12:30 and Sandy's on drug #2. This takes about an hour. Here's a picture of her taking drug #1 (Paclitaxel). You can tell that we have a lot of spare time on our hands while this chemo is going on.

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Here she is, playing on her favorite gaming machine, the Nintendo DS.