{"id":1007,"date":"2021-03-11T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/03\/11\/chemo-day-1\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T23:04:40","slug":"chemo-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/03\/11\/chemo-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemo Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unfortunately, this is a pretty familiar process but on a much bigger scale at the PMH.  I&#8217;m in chair 77 in the Red zone. There are several colour zones and most of the 4th floor is dedicated to chemotherapy.  So, a lot of stations for chemotherapy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I check in and I&#8217;m given a pager! I can roam the entire building with the pager and when it beeps I&#8217;ve been assign a chair.  After waiting for a bit I decide I will pick up some Tim&#8217;s as unfortunately there is no Starbucks in the vicinity. But as soon as I get in the Tim&#8217;s line, the pager goes off so it&#8217;s back up to the 4th floor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"699\" data-attachment-id=\"1006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/03\/11\/chemo-day-1\/img_0376\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?fit=1923%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1923,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1615471225&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.87&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0376\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?fit=525%2C699&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-769x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C699\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?resize=769%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 769w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?resize=1154%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1154w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?resize=1539%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1539w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?w=1923&amp;ssl=1 1923w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_0376-scaled.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two meds are administered each taking 30 minutes and the PICC dress is changed.  The nurse is very nice and we review the side effects and what to do etc.  I&#8217;ve had one of the meds before without any problems, the other is new to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All together I&#8217;m at PMH for about 2 1\/2hrs. Same routine for Friday and Saturday so unless something exciting happens I&#8217;m not likey to post anything until next Tuesday, admission day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, this is a pretty familiar process but on a much bigger scale at the PMH. I&#8217;m in chair 77 in the Red zone. There are several colour zones and most of the 4th floor is dedicated to chemotherapy. So, a lot of stations for chemotherapy. I check in and I&#8217;m given a pager! I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2021\/03\/11\/chemo-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chemo Day 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}