One down, 11 more to go

Alyson had her first chemo treatment on Monday. It was a long day as her infusions were done at a slower pace for observation purposes. The remaining 11 treatments will go faster. The first drug, Hercepton, was infused over a 90 minute session. They then observed her for an hour to see if she would have any adverse reactions since this was a new drug to her. After the hour observation, we had to put on her cold cap 30 minutes prior to her chemo drug infusion. They want the cold cap to start so that the scalp can be cooled down before the chemo drug got into her system. The chemo infusion lasted an hour. Once the chemo drug was done, she had to keep the cold cap on for another hour before she could take it off. We won't know if the cold cap is working until about the third or fourth treatment. We are praying that it is effective in eliminating hair loss for Alyson. As I said, it was a long day. We left the house at 10:30 am and didn't get back until around 8:00 pm.
Tuesday, Alyson felt normal for most of the day until her face became flush red. At first it was bright red and eventually subsided to a pink color. Before she went to bed she started to feel a headache coming on and it got worse through the night. She didn't get much good sleep, but woke up for work anyway. The headache was pretty intense to the point she is now laying in bed after getting sick a couple times. I am staying home with her today and the boys, luckily, are at a camp today and don't have to see her sick. We called to doctor to have them send in a prescription for an anti-nausea medication. I hope this will help her feel better and that the headache will go away too.
On the other side of this, we started school at the college on Monday as well. I am excited for the group of players we have this year. We have a lot of new faces and a solid core of returners. I cannot wait to get started working with this group in the coming days. I have a great assistant that will likely be on his own a lot as we care for Alyson, but I am confident that he will do a great job and have our guys prepared for this season.
Thank you for your continued prayers as we are still a little uncertain as to how Alyson will respond to chemo side effects. I hope she is able to recover in between treatments and can avoid being sick for this 12 week period.