Fiddling with little things

The chemo and Herceptin last week went fine, however Friday night I got a bad pain in my left arm again - the side my port is on. The doctor had said that if it happened again I should get them to stop the chemo injection right away because the chemo could be getting out of the artery. But I don't remember him saying what to do if it happened 6 hours later! Two advil and an early bedtime seemed to be the answer as most of the pain was gone by the next morning.

With the new chemo I'm doing (instead of M-M-N chemo, I just get the N part of the drug cocktail now) I get injections every week. So today I was back in the doctor's office for the pre-chemo visit. He decided to do a dye check to make sure the port was still in the right artery. The answer came back "sort of". The exact end of the port is in a little branch off the main artery. When the drug goes it the port, it has to work out of this little sidetrack area to get to the rest of my body. The good news is that there's no leak so we're good to go for my regular chemo tomorrow. As for moving the port to where it is suppose to be, they'll leave that discussion for later. My arm pain 6 hours later? That's still unexplained.

So that is how I spent 5 hours on Thursday. And I wonder why I never get anything done on my to-do list.

So tomorrow its another bag of intravenous stuff that has a name so long they just call it N.

Hopefully all goes well.