Day 12 – My Healing Journey

I thank God every day that my sister went with me. She helped to make a tenuous and stressful situation alot easier to manage with her presence. We picked out a comedy to watch while I was being infused so the time that it took for the infusion didn’t seem like a long, arduous, drawn out affair.

I noticed that we were the only ones in the clinic that were actually having fun and laughing at the movie. Everyone else in the clinic was either by themselves, or in a somber mood and most of the people weren’t talking at all.  I definitely didn’t want to be one of those people, I wanted to make the best of a difficult situation so I made it my intention to have a good time while I was there.  Being with my sister and watching a comedy made that possible.

Oddly enough, here we are in a cancer clinic, where everyone knows that sugar feeds cancer and yet they have a table full of cookies, chips, soda, and other snacks for the patients to enjoy while they are there. Talk about a mixed message!!! I was flabbergasted. Here they are trying to heal you from your cancer, but I had to wonder…are they really?  It was a huge eye-opener for me.

I am happy to report that the first infusion was uneventful. I felt no different when I left then when I had come in so I was very happy about that.  They gave me my instructions for aftercare and told me I could only take Tylenol if I had any symptoms and they gave me the after hours phone number for the clinic in case I had any issues.  I was thinking that the whole event had been a piece of cake.  Little did I know what was yet to follow.