Drugs Bad
Last night Brent gave me 75mg of Benadryl to help me sleep. It must have worked, because I didn't wake up when he came to bed, but then I had a hard time getting up this morning. Then when I got to the doctors' office, they gave me more Benadryl in my pre-drugs, because I have hay-fever. So I've been kind of groggy all day.
Then, she switched the order of my drugs, and I learned that Taxol is the one that tastes bad. And that I'll be able to taste for the next 4 or 5 days. It's ucky. It's also the one that causes the pain and the hair loss. I just hope it's also kicking the ass of a certain tumor I have. I go in for a scan after my next chemo, so the second week of April. They also gave me a different anti-nausea drug, and it's a liquid. I'm sure it tastes wonderful.
We had a very nice weekend, though. Friday was our 6th anniversary, and we went to Sacramento. When we got there, I was surprised at how much warmer it was on that side of the mountains. We stayed in a B&B "on the grid," which is an older section of Sacramento. There were flowers in bloom all over the neighborhood, and it smelled wonderful. My dad called me while we were walking from the car to the inn (marking the second time he has called me while I was walking down a sidewalk in California), and I mentioned that it smelled like Billings in the summertime, and while we were discussing whether I was smelling mock orange or real orange blossoms, I saw the mock orange bush in someone's yard. Then he told me a story about picking fruit off the trees at both the temple and the motel in Arizona. I apparently missed my family's citrus crime spree on my wedding day.
The real reason we went to Sacramento was for a "Once More With Feeling" sing-along. It was a lot of fun. A couple of people came in costume, including a girl who dressed as Drusilla, which makes no sense, as she's not even in the episode. But she was with the guy dressed as Spike, so it' probably a costume combination they've done before. The air conditioning in the museum wasn't working, so the only person who was comfortable was the girl dressed as Anya (for those who don't watch Buffy, Anya does her big musical number in her underwear). I saw a couple of people I think I recognized, but I wasn't positive. I'm actually really bad at recognizing faces, so it's not uncommon for me to see someone who looks kind of familiar and to wonder if I really know them, or if they just look like other people. It makes celebrity sightings next to impossible for me. "Who is that guy? Is he in my chemistry class? Oh, no, he's Steve Young."
Then, she switched the order of my drugs, and I learned that Taxol is the one that tastes bad. And that I'll be able to taste for the next 4 or 5 days. It's ucky. It's also the one that causes the pain and the hair loss. I just hope it's also kicking the ass of a certain tumor I have. I go in for a scan after my next chemo, so the second week of April. They also gave me a different anti-nausea drug, and it's a liquid. I'm sure it tastes wonderful.
We had a very nice weekend, though. Friday was our 6th anniversary, and we went to Sacramento. When we got there, I was surprised at how much warmer it was on that side of the mountains. We stayed in a B&B "on the grid," which is an older section of Sacramento. There were flowers in bloom all over the neighborhood, and it smelled wonderful. My dad called me while we were walking from the car to the inn (marking the second time he has called me while I was walking down a sidewalk in California), and I mentioned that it smelled like Billings in the summertime, and while we were discussing whether I was smelling mock orange or real orange blossoms, I saw the mock orange bush in someone's yard. Then he told me a story about picking fruit off the trees at both the temple and the motel in Arizona. I apparently missed my family's citrus crime spree on my wedding day.
The real reason we went to Sacramento was for a "Once More With Feeling" sing-along. It was a lot of fun. A couple of people came in costume, including a girl who dressed as Drusilla, which makes no sense, as she's not even in the episode. But she was with the guy dressed as Spike, so it' probably a costume combination they've done before. The air conditioning in the museum wasn't working, so the only person who was comfortable was the girl dressed as Anya (for those who don't watch Buffy, Anya does her big musical number in her underwear). I saw a couple of people I think I recognized, but I wasn't positive. I'm actually really bad at recognizing faces, so it's not uncommon for me to see someone who looks kind of familiar and to wonder if I really know them, or if they just look like other people. It makes celebrity sightings next to impossible for me. "Who is that guy? Is he in my chemistry class? Oh, no, he's Steve Young."
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