Taxol the day after

Just a quick post to let you know that so far things are going well with the Taxol. No reactions during the infusion, although it takes forever to go in. I think it was about 3 hours for the Taxol, plus an hour in the beginning for all the meds they give first. I had to wear a blood pressure cuff the whole time, which automatically checked my blood pressure every 15 minutes at first, then every half hour when it looked like I was not going to tip over. But the machine thought I was going to tip over since my blood pressure is so low, I set off the alarm every time after I had been laying there for awhile, but that's pretty much normal blood pressure for me. I asked the nurse how low is bad and she said "well, basically if your eyes are open and you're talking to me it's ok". I felt much better last night than I have with the other drugs. From my quizzing the Doctor, it sounds like the anti-nausea drug was the culprit for shutting down my digestion and making me feel lousy the night of the treatments, and I don't have to have that same drug for the Taxol because it is not so bad for nausea. I do still have to have the steroid, but I was able to get a decent night's sleep last night. The bummer is that my blood counts were a little low on Friday and so she is making me get the Neulasta shot again today. If my counts are back up next time she said we can try skipping it, so come on blood, grow! By the way, I got the first bill for that miserable shot last week - guess how much? Come on, guess? Make a crazy high guess and then double it, at least. Ok, I'm going to leave you hanging on that one - I'll give you the answer tomorrow...