Randam Adam

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile.  Well I had my 

surgical implantation of the portacath last Weds 

(Oct 28th) it went good. It was a bit more 

intense then i thought it would be.I knew that

they were gonna be cutting open my chest, but 

what I didn't know was that they were gonna be 

making incisions at the bottom of my neck and 

putting tubes down them.  So I was awake for the

surgery, the procedure itself wasn't that painful,

the afterward is!

It feels funny and so far 

its been pretty painful. 

It just hurts to move my 

neck chest or arm because 

they cut thru the muscle. 

I'm sure the thing that hasn't been 

helping is the fact that I started 

getting sick the night before the 

surgery and have had major head,

sinus and chest congestion.I

have been sneezing and coughing 

, which you can imagine 

doesn't feel the greatestto have your chest muscles

flexing when they just cut thru them!

So I really think that this darn cold and all of 

the coughing has seriously slowed down the rate 

at which the incisions are healing. They told me 

that I shouldonly be really sore for a few days

and here a week later I'm still in some major 

pain. But besides that I'm doing all right. I was

told I could take the top bandages off today 

cause they were falling off and they would be 

taking them off tomorrow anyways. So here is what 

I can see now.

They put some sort of glue

on the incision to help it

heal but the problem is that

they didn't wait for it to 

dry and now the sutures and 

part of the bandage are glued

to the incision. So this 

should be interesting and I 

really hope that they can take 

them off without ripping

open the incisions.

OK, so I  am starting chemotherapy tomorrow at

9am at UCI Hospital.  I went and gave      

at the lab this afternoon so they have all of

my starting       counts,and then I went and 

got two of the six medicines that I'll have to

take during each round of chemotherapy and 

I just found out today that there's is a co-pay 

for each one and now this is another bill that

I'm gonna have and I hope I can handle it on

top of everything else that I have right now.

So tomorrows chemo will be a bit longer then

the rest because its my first time and they 

have to take       and give me a lot of

different medicines orally and thru injections

before I start the actual chemo treatment.

They say I should expect to be there 6-8

hours possibly. So I just gotta bring reading 

materials, charge myphone and GAMEBOY DS and 

just be prepare to sit for awhile (now Im 

wishing I had a neck pillow and even one of

those butt doughnut pillow thingies).  Once

again my chemo is called "R-Chop" and I will 

hopefully do an update tomorrow to let you all

know how it went. I'm sure it wont be as long

as this one I promise.  Once again thank you

for all of your thoughts and prayers and I love 

you all!

GOD Bless, 

               ADP