I should preface by saying that last night was not a good night sleep, 2 hours, here, 2 hours there, so between that and the increased exercise I threw at myself yesterday, I was not a ball of energy today.
The process of rituximab infusion takes minimum of 5-6 hours, up to several more if the person is reacting with any allergic symptoms. Mine started about noon. It's all about slow and steady. So the lovely head nurse Galeena comes in, gives me the steroids, antihistamine, etc then hooks me up to the Ritux....Ever gone to the dental surgeon for procedure and they say count back starting from ten and you usually don't make it to eight? Well, lets just say I woke up long enough to scarf a 2 pm meal, then back asleep until 6pm! Crazy...must have switched the bottle with the elephant tranquilizer! Wow, did that feel good. Not to worry, the doctor apparently checked in on me no less than four times while I was in full drooling mode. No concerns just making up for lost sleep I guess.
I have always been fortunate in my lifetime to not have to take more than a handful of any type of medications, so no surprise these things are doing what they are supposed to do to help me out here!
Last big one today! Very pleased to have it done. The next week will be plenty of blood work, weaning meds, getting my conditioning up, and hopefully getting this Subclavian line out of my neck at the end of the week or weekend! Cant say I'll miss it!
All the best from Moscow!