My daughter Emily took me to chemo on Wed. I was glad I could finally have the treatment. My IV stand is on other side of my purse. I had to get the IV in my right arm. She couldn't get a vein in left arm. Chemo is hard on the veins. It was the fourth week by the time I could have chemo. It's been stressful. The insurance had to approve the shots and so I had to play the waiting game until that happened. I was told that the insurance company likes to wait to see if the patient's white blood count will increase on its own which mine never did. I finally had my white blood count up on Sunday when I was at Jewish Hospital. My treatment center is closed on Saturday and Sunday so I had to go to their treatment center at Jewish Hospital on the weekend. I had the shot on Sat. and on Sunday I didn't need it because my count was up to 1700. After my chemo on Friday, the nurse put an on-site injector on my arm. It was set for 27 hours and at 4:00 pm on Saturday, it beeped, then injected medication for 50 minutes. It will help keep my white blood count up so I can have chemo treatment in August. I was relieved when I could remove the patch and the whole thing. It kept flashing a green light every several seconds for the whole time. Emily said it looked like dental floss. LOL
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