after first chemo treatment

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First treatment was hard to get myself to, worked on warding off

panic attacks all morning.

When I go there, I could not go in. I had to work on it again for

over 10 minutes.

I did react to the drug, flushed, hard to breath, excruciating back

pain. They had to stop, give me a strong antihistamine, more

steroids, then watch my vitals until they went back to normal and

then resume slowly. Took 4 hours instead of 2. Not any fun.

Hopefully the next will go better. I am supposed to take 50 mg. of

decadron before the next one, but plan to re-negotiate that with my

doctor. That is way too much for a person with diabetes in the

family to be taking. My brother took one 6 day course of Prednisone

and had diabetes permanently.

In any case, I see about a wig next week, and there is a Center for

Integrative Care right in the center that I am going to start

using. Getting some alternative care will help me feel better.

Lynda