Chemo treatment number 1

First chemotherapy treatment was April 18. It pretty well took all day. My husband and I were at the cancer clinic from 11:15 am to 4:15 pm. There was a lot of waiting around. The clinic is a very busy place. We had to meet with the oncologist, wait, check into the treatment room, wait. I was really nervous. The staff at the centre are all very gentle and kind and patient but I was very nervous. One of the nurses put some Emla cream on the portacath site to numb the area still it was uncomfortable I had a porta-cath was inserted on my right side about 3 inches down from my collar bone. (This provides a pathway for the chemo infusion and for taking blood). The porta-cath was inserted about six days earlier so the site was a bit tender.

The actual infusion took about 50 minutes.