After a needed break away to San Diego to visit family for the x-mas holiday (got to see mom, dad and grandma in addition to my sister's family). It was great to have all the distractions of the family gathering to keep my mind off the aches and worry's of the past and upcoming events. Now, as expected we are back in the hospital today for the first round of ICE chemo treatment. We checked in around 8:30am and had been waiting until about 2:00pm to finally getting things going. They placed a pick line in my left upper arm (kinda behind the bicep muscle.) It should help eleviate some blood draw pokes and will be instrumental when they begin administering the chemo. I am still dealing with the pain from the blood clot and the fevers but with the pain medications its been manageable. We have learned that this chemo is going to wipe me out more thoroughly than we had expected. It all depend on how my body takes it but my blood counts will be greatly reduced and infection is going to be a much bigger concern than we had thought. Still I should be out of here on Thursday night or Friday morning. I will post more after the first round has sunk in a bit, but right now I am doing OK . Just way tired, but that is to be expected.
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