Kris, Dave and the Lumps: Round 3, Chemo #3

2009-Oct-9 Friday
Went down to Boulder, by way of the Original Pancake House, for chemotherapy. We also stopped by the book store to pick up some Sudoku books. Ours were getting old and we've made friends with a gal, I think her name is Edina, who was interested in Sudoku but we didn't have anything but my iTouch to demonstrate/teach it on and she does not like the iTouch interface.
When we got there I asked if it was ok if I stuck around. I caught some weird sort of cold about the time of the last Chemotherapy session. Just a tickle in the back of my nose, then a bonafide sore throat but, it wasn't very sore at all. Finally it moved back into my sinuses as 'pressure' but not true blockage. Now it's migrated into my chest for vacation and apparently it's enjoying the place 'cause I can't seem to shake it. No fever, no chills, no aches, nothing but this 'pressure' and a cough for trying to clear my lungs. I've been very concerned about passing this to Kris and thus have gone well above and beyond the call of duty trying to NOT spread it. Kris did complain about a mildly sore throat but she must've beaten it back since she got no other symptoms
So, we headed back to the infusion room where they gave her the anti-nausea medicine in a drip to avoid giving her nausea like it did last time. Yes, that is the definition of Irony. We settled in and played Cribbage throughout the day. Unlike normal, we managed to spill the cards twice and the cribbage board three times... this is a record for us! The most spectacular of which happened when Kris dropped a card down in her chart... now these are comfortable chairs but, they are on the cheap so the space between the arm and cushion goes straight through. We've dropped cards down that way several times and the cards have always appeared on the floor below that side of the chair. Imagine our surprise when she dropped and ace and nothing showed up! I got down on the floor to look as close as I could... no card. While I wasn't watching, Kris, IV tube and all, got down on the floor to look with me. I stood up, saw her craning her neck laying on the ground with an IV tube reaching up to the IV pump and said 'something is wrong with the picture of you laying on the ground searching for cards while getting Chemotherapy.' Just at that point, one of the nurses walked up with a panicked look at which point Kris broke out into peels of laughter at the situation! So, we all had a good laugh (including the other patients).
The short of it is that the infusion was uneventful. Now we have to weather the next 4 days of achiness and pain as the drugs work their magic.