Feaked out but holding

Hi all,

Today I spent most of the afternoon at the surgeon's office. My port looks fine and my biopsy wound is looking much better. Tired, but okay. Looking forward to the weekend and napping (dr. appointments kinda spoiled my afternoon naptime).

Apprehensive about next week and the Rituxan. Did some surfing and it scared the heck out of me with the side effects at time of IV. After freaking out for a while, Jim took a look at the literature that was given at the time of our Chemo Training, and it calmed me down a bit. Still, will be a scary time. Fever, chills are mostly expected, but there are a whole bunch of others that may occur in 10-29 percent. Then there is all the water you have to drink because of possible damage to kidneys due to the dead cancer cells. Heart problems a possiblility a couple of days later. Think this scares me more than the CHOP cycle.

Haven't been given the treatment date yet. Since Monday is a holiday I know I won't hear anything until Tuesday.

Love to all