First Chemo treatment

I had my first chemo treatment yesterday at Riverbend Hospital.  All in all it was actually a great experience!

The only thing I was nervous about was getting my IV.  So before hand I drank boat loads of gatorade and water, which paid off!  Didn't even take the nurse a minute to find a vein and get the IV in! I told her she rocked and she said it was her first IV. I said "Are you serious?!" She said it was her first IV of the morning. But she also told me she only had been working there for 3 weeks so I kinda wonder...

Notice my bracelet? Jamie, my sister in law had it made for me, it has all of my family's birthstones and all of Jeff's family's.  And a breast cancer charm. I have so many beautiful jewelry people have given me, I'll have to post some pictures later.

I love this bracelet, the nurse gives them to all the newbies. I love the message, totally fits my outlook.

And the bracelet under it was given to my by my mother in law, it has another breast cancer ribbon charm on it and a wellness charm. Again, later I'll take better pics, but isn't it beautiful!?

Such a beautiful view! It was rainy so I had an excuse to wear my awesome pink plaid rain boots from my mom. Kinda went with the whole "pink theme".  The rain and mist also added to the beauty of the view, I love Oregon!

More of the view. 

And I had great company while I was there. My cousin, Whitney, who just recently went through Hodgkins Lymphoma, came with me! She is absolutely the sweetest person.  And I really felt the giddiness of the steroids because I talked her ear off, for like 5 hours! Anyone who knows me knows that's really abnormal for me. She brought me the whole Percy Jackson series to read and games and there was a TV but we just had fun visiting the whole time and catching up. Love you Whit!!

And this awesome T-shirt was given to me by my good friend Crystal. Seriously good friend. She went with me to get my hair chopped off and chopped hers off too! Talk about moral support! (Hope you don't mind, Crystal, that I linked to our Snow Day post on your cute blog.)

This is what I did after when I got back to my mom's house instead of taking a nap like I probably should have. A little coloring therapy. I know you're so jealous of my mad coloring skills! ;)

And I got to see this sweet young lady! I'm so proud of this girl. She has lived on her own in a group home for over a year and has really grown as an adult. She loves it there and I'm so happy for  her. She starts taking some life skills classes again this week and has a job at Perl Buck which she seems to enjoy. 

AND, she has gone down 6 clothing sizes!!! I'm so proud of you Cindy, you are such an inspiration, I love you!

So that was my adventure yesterday.  1 down, 3 more to go!!!