I had an 8:30 check-in this morning for my 10:00 port-a-cath procedure. Once again, radiology at St. Luke's was running on a different clock than the rest of the world. Once it got started, everything went fine, and they said it couldn't have gone better. Tida, always at the ready with her camera, took a picture of the "smart port ct" they implanted in my upper chest.




We finally left the hospital at about 12:30, had lunch, filled a couple of prescriptions, then made it to my primary physician for a pneumonia vaccine, because one of the drugs I'll be taking makes me susceptible to pneumonia.

I have my first chemo treatment first thing in the morning. I'll get velcade, a chemo drug, and decadron, a steroid through the port-a-cath, then revlemid, a fairly new drug for multiple myeloma I'll take orally. The revlimid is highly controlled and it's not available through the pharmacy, they're delivering to the house tomorrow afternoon.

I'm not supposed to have a lot of side effects, but with all the different drugs I'll be taking, there seem to be a lot of opportunities!