Treatment Happened Today

Dr. Miranda is back from Thailand and Melissa had an appointment with him this morning. He checked her over and gave her the okay to have her 3rd treatment today. She started at 11:30 with some extra fluids. Then they gave her the Emend followed by other chemo drugs. She didn't end up getting the lorazepam, which is one of the anti nausea drugs, because it made her so dizzy last time. Tyler says she is doing okay for now and has some lorazepam pills if she decides she needs them later. She finished the treatment at 2:30 and went home to rest before the real nausea hits later. Melissa will go back tomorrow for the Neulasta shot but will be able to do the fluids at home for the next 3 days.
Tyler told me a story about Melissa attempting to eat some spicy jerk sauce last week. She loves spicy food and I have never heard her say that something is too spicy! She always asks at restaurants if somethings is spicy and when they downplay the spicy she asks them to make it hotter.  She has been known to shake spicy stuff on her snickerdoodles! She was told that she would not be able to eat spicy food during the chemo, but I'm not surprised that she had to see for herself. Tyler said it did not go well! She told him it felt like someone put a hot poker in her mouth. It took a while to get the heat out by rinsing with milk! She had said in the beginning that this would be one of the hardest things about having chemo!