Round #2

Weight: 139.4
Pain areas: 1.5/10 (little aches all over)
Nausea: 0/10
General Attitude: Positive
Swallowing Difficulty: 5/10
Medications:
1. Prevacid,
2. Vitamin E,
3. Multivitamin,
4. Tylenol
5. Prochlorperazine (Compazine) 10mg x1
6. Fluorouracil 50mg/ml 100ml
7. Leucovorin
8. Oxaliplatin

I'm here at the UCLA Oncology Center waiting to get another infusion. Hopefully it'll be better this time around: one of my cousins sent me several tubes of lidocaine (local anesthetic) - this should help a lot for the initial pain from the needle stabbing.

Update: My life flashed before by eyes. The nurses couldn't flush saline through my port - I thought the port had clogged up with blood! It turned out that the needle was closer to the edge than to the center of the port - so they had to stab me yet again - this time with a 1-inch needle. Ug!

Update 2: That second needle didn't work either. Another needle was needed. I'm begining to think that there is something really wrong with my port.

Well, it turned out that I just needed to move my right shoulder around for the fluids to start flowing - the catheter from the port was most likely getting cut off from my massive pectorals =). I'll know better next time.