{"id":381,"date":"2020-04-06T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/?p=381"},"modified":"2020-04-06T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:34:38","slug":"cycle-1-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2020\/04\/06\/cycle-1-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle 1, Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
Railing at the Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Another first for me. Last time it was treatment on Day 1, wait and repeat 21 days later. Now it\u2019s Day 1, perhaps a Day 2 and for sure a Day 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 8 is for another dose of Gemcitabine. Sounds delicious right? The process should be relatively short. Some pre-treatment anti nausea stuff (insert long complicated drug name here), wait 1\/2hr for that to kick in and then the chemo med for another 1\/2hr. Finish it up with a 10 minute flush and I’m done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, more or less expected and then the unexpected. On Days 7-14 I’ll be self injecting with GRASTOFIL\u00ae \u2022 Filgrastim (fill-GRASS-tim) is a drug that helps your bone marrow make new white. blood cells. White blood cells protect your body by fighting bacteria (germs) that cause infection. That sounds like a good thing right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another first for me. Last time it was treatment on Day 1, wait and repeat 21 days later. Now it\u2019s Day 1, perhaps a Day 2 and for sure a Day 8. Day 8 is for another dose of Gemcitabine. Sounds delicious right? The process should be relatively short. Some pre-treatment anti nausea stuff (insert … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Cycle 1, Day 8”<\/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-381","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\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}