Well first they will draw his blood to make sure the platelets are ok which they will be, but you will be surprised how fast they can drop even the next day. At Penn they had to be 40,000 or greater to get the chemo. The highest mine were once was 290,000.
Then when he goes into the room to just relax and take it easy. On my big days I got the zofran for nausea in the IV on the short day I got a zofran by mouth. My chemo was MVAC
www.chemocare.com/bio/list_by_acronym.asp?acronym=MVAC I went Tue, Wed, and Fri, everyother week for 3 months which is 3 cycles. I got the Methotrexate on Tues. The Methotrexate they told me to rinse my mouth out with warm salt water to prevent mouth sores but not for the other 3 drugs but i guess it can't hurt. And then on Wed I got the other 3. I also came back on Fri. to get a shot of neulasta
www.drugs.com/neulasta.html which is a shot to keep the white blood count up. I got nauesous here and there at home I took compazine which worked fine for me. The biggest effect the chemo had on me I was tired alot. My insurance Keystone65 did cover Zofran 6 tablets a month $35 each. I saved them for my bad days. Karen is right about chemo brain but for me it was I get real forgetful or just like slip into a trance or lose track of the conversation. I didn't have any mood swings because I was too tired to swing into a mood. You didn't mention what kind of chemo your husband is getting. I know some people that just made themselves sick mentally by just walking in the room and this is no joke. I really did not have any major problems taking the chemo and it will be over before you know it. Good Luck, Joe ;)
***Karen what's with the Ben Gay thing that's a new one on me guess we are all different and also when you are on chemo Stephany you don't do anything drug wise or whatever unless you check with your Oncologist first and this is no joke. My Oncologist stessed this to me over and over. For example if needed I could take a tyenol but no motrin. Even if your Primary prescribed a new drug you need to check with the Oncologist first. Most Primaries wouldn't do this. You hit the nail on the head the poison going into you so you don't wanna do anything to interfere with it without the Oncologist's ok.
