

We put the EMLA on my chest an hour before. This numbs the skin over the port so the needle insertion isn't so painful.

In the waiting room of the Medical Oncology unit at OHSU's Center for Health and Healing.

The first of many rounds of drugs. (The rest were IV.) These are mostly for nausea control.

Waiting for some action.

Some action. They hung about ten or twelve different bags on me through the day, and later I acquired a third pump.



Medicine is always more fun when it comes in a biohazard bag.

Look, ma! Three pumps! Plus my highly weird and entertaining P.A., Jon.

A spoon from

Sometimes it's just funny.
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