Pictures of My First Round of Chemo

I am ready for chemo! The numbing cream is on my port area and I am anxious to get going!

These two ladies are the wonderful nurses that helped me through my first round. They were a God send; so nice, so patient, so amazing. In this picture they are spraying a freeze spray (a.k.a. nurse Ethyl) on my port site before they stick it for the first time. Don't I look deceivingly happy about the impending stick. :)

I've been stuck with the special needle for the first time.

This is a close up. Isn't the nice red blood a good color next to the yellow needle "top" and blue shirt?!

Thanks Claire Strayer for the wonderful, soft blanket. It was so comforting, and I loved having it with me for my first round.

This is one of the types of chemo I have. I think it's interesting that the bags of chemo say to handle with gloves, yet it's ok to put it inside of me. Interesting, no?

This is a front view of one of my lovely nurses, and a picture of the fantastic machine that regulate the flow of chemo.

This is a front view of Beth, another of the wonderful nurses that helped me.

This type of chemo was given to me by hand. Beth injected the liquid into the tubes slowly, and it was so cool to watch the clear liquid go dark red, then light red, the dark red again whenever she gave a little push. You can kind-of see the transformation in this picture.