Round 1, Part 1

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Round 1 Part 1

Hey Readers! Well, I survived round 1 part 1. Have I told you how on-time the people at the Georgia Cancer Institute are? Even ahead of time? Well, they are. Rebecca and I got there about 20 minutes before my appointment time and by my 9:30am appointment time, I had already had my blood drawn and port accessed. In what world does the happened? I met with a doctor (none was obj vacation) and he reviewed everything I would be going through. Of course Candy, who I think is really in charge of the whole thing, was there too. After my meeting with the doctor I had a quick EKG done. I wasn’t sure why I had this done since I had one done a week before but they are so fast and painless it wasn’t a big deal.

It was then time to go to the infusion center. On things cool about the GCI, is that everything is on one floor right next to each other. At Winship I was going from one floor to another to a different building, up down and all around. Here it is all at one place. The Infusion center was cold and really quite. There weren’t that many people there so we got to pick out where we sat.

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Getting comfy.

Getting comfy.

I was offered a pillow and warm blanket. In all, we were there for an hour. They had to take my vitals every half hour. There are a few things that they have to do that are different since it is a clinical trail. Everything had to be done a certain way according to the sponsor of the trial. There were no individual TV’s just a big one for every few chairs and they were set to close captioning. Law and Order SVU.

It go busier the longer we were there. My nurse was super nice, as is everyone there is. They have a section where you can get water, coffee and tea and there was a volunteer on the floor helping people out if they needed it. When I finally get over all this shit, maybe I will sign up to be a volunteer. I think I would like that. A lot of people were all wrapped up tight and sleeping. You could tell that they were going to be there awhile. I was the youngest one in the place. Not to sure how I feel about that.

After I was done and my port was closed up, I went and made my appointments for the next month. I will be going back once a week to have either my blood drawn, get a shot or have treatment for the next month. It is a good thing that GCI is close by (takes about 15 min to get there) and that they seem to be on time. It shouldn’t be too big of a pain in my pasty white buttocks. Now if I could only stay awake….

5 thoughts on “Round 1, Part 1

  1. We know that you do not like Law and Order SUV if only criminal intent would come back or the original. I have decided that my neurologist, Dr. Marker should come over to the Georgia Cancer Institute and learn how to be on time. I might suggested it next time I see him especially when he is one hour and half late. Dad and I were very impressed with the institute. Hang tough Shay Shay, love you lots,lots,lots Momee

  2. Whew…one under your belt! GCI sounds a lot like the place I went for treatments…well except the Law & Order part…Lol! And yes I agree on the volunteering! Imma check into that also:)
    Getting ready to celebrate Saturday…it will mark one year since my mastectomies…and what a year it has been…whew
    Stay strong sista…hugs

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