THE PROTOCOL

The first round of treatment consisted of deximethizone a steroid that can fix anything quickly but its effect isn’t lasting-this plan was to knock the numbers down so I’d be ready for transplant the steroids shut down the adreline system just another of those regulating systems that help us keep put body on track. It’s like speed-now I didn’t have any super human baseball strength, but the first night I did take a walk to cvs to catch up on my birthday cards and drug store shopping after 1am. Those first four days I stayed up even through a sleeping pill. I did a lot of reorganizing. I trudged through work looking a bit maniacal but I had informed the staff before the treatment of what was to come. The 2 4 days I stopped the dex as played after three days I could not go to sleep and I could not get out of bed, by the 2nd week, I was weeping. I was so depressed I could lift my head
My department did everything they could to keep things business as usual they marked all my final projects, tidied the office and sent me their love. They are a blessing In the past five years the staff has turned over and I have been blessed with imaginative, compassionate, anything for a laugh, get the job done staff-- each provided something always for me but now more than ever they tucked their fear away and came to my aid
When my treatment switched to IV once a week we had a chemo cake in honor of the treatment