Home, Week 25.5, Chemo Round 5

Double-drug chemo day. We've done all the preventative measures we can take, and after a third of a bag of the second drug, Mom had a reaction. Turns out, these reactions (flushing, chest tightening, higher blood pressure and pulse) can be life threatening, but the nurses have been so calm about things externally that we had no idea. They stay in her room and keep an eye out on her when she has a reaction, and do their charting in here, just to make sure she's okay. They keep the necessary things around in case the reaction does get too severe, but they've been taking care of it before it gets to that point, thank God. So we need to figure out a new game plan, because her body is definitely not happy with this drug.