Wednesday, February 4, 2015

There Was One Advantage to the Infusions

I'm realizing there was at least one advantage to infusion-based chemotherapy. Both the pills and the infusions are/were delivering basically the same drugs, the infusions just did it a lot faster. With the infusions, then, I felt much worse and worse much faster, but it wore off faster as well. Six days unable to get out of bed, but for the remaining eight I'd be more or less okay. 

But with the pills, you get fourteen days of semi-exhaustion. It's not the bedridden exhaustion you got with the infusions; it's more of a "can I please have a nap?" exhaustion. Which would be fine if my employer had bit on the "napsules" suggestion back in the day, but since we don't actually have napsules -- just work stations -- there's not a whole lot to do with the fatigue except to just work through it.  

But it's still better than two days with an infusion pump. 

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