{"id":408,"date":"2020-04-21T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2020\/04\/21\/cycle-2-day-1\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:24:34","slug":"cycle-2-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2020\/04\/21\/cycle-2-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle 2 Day 1:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I&#8217;m back in my favorite (?) chair and Megan is taking good care of me this morning. Pre-meds are in and IV hydration underway. <\/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=\"407\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2020\/04\/21\/cycle-2-day-1\/img_4982\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-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;1587461531&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.87&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4982\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?fit=525%2C699&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-769x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C699\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?resize=769%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 769w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1022&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?resize=1154%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1154w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?resize=1539%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1539w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?w=1923&amp;ssl=1 1923w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_4982-scaled.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Plugged in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It about 1pm now and more medicines have been pumping in via the IV and I&#8217;ve eaten some yummy lunch that Shirley prepared for me. Feeling very sleepy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little excitement in one of the other chairs. A lady had a very sudden and severe reaction to one of the medications. In a matter of seconds she went from &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel too good&#8221; to &#8220;I have severe back pain in the 9-10 range! Instantly, 5 nurses were assisting, stopping the meds, on oxygen , Benadryl, pain meds, and charting everything . Very shortly, the on call Dr arrived for a consult. Very intense! In about 10 minutes everthing subsided and she was back to &#8220;normal&#8221;. Thankful I&#8217;ve never had such a reaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another couple of hours to go. More napping is highly likely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the day is uneventful and I&#8217;m done by 3:30pm and Shirley is waiting to take me home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another quiet night (like so many nowadays )at home with Boston Pizza take-out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m back in my favorite (?) chair and Megan is taking good care of me this morning. Pre-meds are in and IV hydration underway. It about 1pm now and more medicines have been pumping in via the IV and I&#8217;ve eaten some yummy lunch that Shirley prepared for me. Feeling very sleepy. A little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2020\/04\/21\/cycle-2-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cycle 2 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":[15,9],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-cancercare","tag-chemo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}