Well tomorrow is the second treatment of chemotherapy. After receiving my first treatment I only really had one side effect and that was the itis. For those of you who aren’t really familiar with chemo and what it does to people the itis is short for “Itis don’t want to do anything.” So besides that nothing else really happened.

     There was one side effect from the nausea medicine they gave me through my port. I don’t know what it was called but the next day it causes bouts of hiccups… What the crap??? Hiccups really? The day after I got my first treatment I just started hiccupping, then I stopped. I thought nothing of it until it happened again about twenty minutes later and Renée said she didn’t think she had ever heard me hiccup before. I just stood there trying to think of what in the world could be causing it. So we looked it up and sure enough there is something called chemo hiccups. It wasn’t cause by the chemo itself but the nausea medicine administered during treatment, funny thing, huh? The nausea medicine that was prescribed to me, that I would be taking for the next few days after, would not have the same effect. Throughout the day I would start hiccupping after I got up from sitting or laying down, it would last a few minutes then go away or sometimes it would just happen if I twisted or bent just the right way… what was that stuff, a diaphragm freak out steroid?


     Today Renée decided to try and comfort me before I went to me second chemo tomorrow by getting me a candy bar that is not only delicious but quite accurately describes me, a Big Hunk. I appreciated it. On the back it had an image that tells you how you should eat the candy bar. It was actually a message from one Big Hunk to another about how I am to treat the cancer and chemo tomorrow, thank you Renée for relaying that message.

     We will see if I can get some photos of the place tomorrow.