here we go

We were all alone in the oncologists' office. The doctor went into another room to mix up the drug after she made Marie comfortable in an examining room. I didn't know much about chemotherapy. I thought that the patients sit in big chairs, are hooked up to an intravenous drip and the drug is delivered into the blood stream. What I had been finding out was that are numerous types of chemotherapy. Marie already started one form, the capsules taken daily, seven days on and seven days off.

This new type would be a sort of injection into the omayan reservoir where the drug would flow down a tube and directly into the brain. Maire would lay down on a table in the examine room while the doctor did the injection. She would have to lay there for a while to allow the drug to flow through the tube. This type on chemotherapy is called intrathecal. It all went as planned. The total process took about two hours. Marie had no reaction that night.