Needle!
Here (left) they are about to poke me with the needle for my IV. If you click on the image to see it larger, you'll get even more creeped out! I watched it go into my arm and I feel like some kind of a tough guy.
Two of my vballers came to visit me while I got my chemo. They were so cool and fun to be around that I fell asleep within about 20 minutes and they had to leave. Just kidding Lindz and Pace! My bad...it was the drugs! Thanks for coming by! By the way, look at that dude in the window above us! He will now be my symbol of health, my odd guardian angel that is probably on the same drugs I am.
So far, the chemo rounds have gotten incrementally better! I guess I am a rare case all around. Still no vomit stories unfortunately. Yesterday I got a shot of Neulasta again. That shot gives me a boost of white blood cells. The shot is $6,000, then they have to squirt out 1/3 of it ($2000) to give me the right dose. Now I feel like royalty with all the excessive waste. I can't believe I have gained 5 pounds since I started my cancer. I really gotta get out and swim.
[by the way, I heard some of the USAA people are keeping up on my blog...notice I've still got my USAA recsports volleyball shirt from back when I was an intern!]
posted by Jason Trip at 12:23 PM
5 Comments:
Awesome pose there, Jason. Who IS that guy behind you, anyway?!?
Sounds like they're finding the right balance for you with all the anti-emetics--phew.
And I see you still have very nice thick eyebrows. Very cool. Other than that, you look like the same Jason-with-the-baseball-hat that I know. Remember the day I walked into the classroom about a year ago, wondering what was different about you...and it was that you had NO HAT on!!
One of your students is about to graduate tomorrow--with a 4.0, t'boot. AAAAaaand he's gonna play his acoustic guitar in the band at the ceremony. Sweet. Just thought you'd like to revel in it a bit, since you had a part in the whole thing.
Keep up the good work!
Wendy :-)
11:04 PM
hmm, the black and white on that picture is very artistic. did you photoshop that? haha. and nice pose...
lol see you soon!
Coca
10:16 AM
Ha, no, I didn't photoshop it. Pictures were courtesy of Annie Barnett (Lindsey's mom). She drove me to the chemo that day. She is a pro photographer.
12:52 PM
Unless posted otherwise, that statue looks like Hippocrates - the father of Medicine. So you are in good hands Jason.
8:26 AM
Nice action shot with the IV insertion. I've seen in done hundreds of times on patients, but still can't watch my own blood get drawn. Gotta to love how much those meds cost. I've messed up a few times with the administration of a few extremely expensive drugs, sometimes wasting a bit too much, oops! What can you do?! Good to hear the whole process is going so well. Only a few more days of school, then summer break...nice!
9:53 PM
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