Chemo Number 1

I started chemo yesterday A little scary but I’m OK We got there maybe half past eight Stayed till two with lots of wait They used the port they put in last week I’d show it to you if you’d like a peek First the lab – to pierce my port They took some blood for some report You should have seen the needle used More like a nail did they choose I took a breath, they stabbed it in And with that chemo did begin This nail had some tubes attached Where other tubes would soon be patched The doc came in, we talked a bit He said it’s time, get on with it But first a video to see To show us just what was to be We waited for the cocktail mix The lab just started then to fix The names of drugs? I haven’t time Nor have I yet to find their rhyme Suffice to say they’re Latin words Words like you have never heard Fifteen minutes then a flush This process really has no rush Two more bags were then connected Two more hours were now projected A flush of saline, vile of chem. Did I have enough of them? No, then they hooked a pump to me To give me more but more slowly A pump within a belly-bag That for three days I must drag And with that they then sent me home Where I could wait there by the phone So they could call and check on me Until it’s time there on day three To come back in and be inspected While the pump is disconnected 5/13/11 I wrote this the day after my chemo started. That is how it all went down.