Your memorable moments during cancer treatment? [View All]

I'm sure we all have a few war stories, here's one of mine...

I'll never forget getting my first Taxotere and having severe allergic reactions - fainting, dizziness, difficulty breathing. They would take me off the IV, have me lay down on a gurney, then give me more benadryl & steroids, then hook me up again. This went on 3 or 4 times til I could tolerate it, took several hours. All the time my FIL and I watched tv as the Columbine massacre unfolded on CNN. I got through it, but ended up crashing with a staph infection several days later w/ almost no immune system. Days later I was in the hospital again w/ a raging fever on IV antibiotics watching those poor kids funerals.

The day I crashed from the staph infection was a Sunday, and I followed docs orders and went to the local community hospital who had no idea what was wrong with me. They gave me some morphine and were going to send me home, but I made them call my med onc. He casually asked them to tell me to go downtown and be admitted to his hospital "just so he could check me out". He later told me if I had gone home as they suggested I wouldn't have lived through the night.