(Mostly) smooth day at the clinic

We arrived for the appointment at 10:30 but since there was a full house of patients nothing really happened until about 11:30. Sawyer has a reserved room for his appointments - the one right in front of the nurse station so he can be in sight. We got to go to the room right away and got settled in knowing it would be many hours before we left. The only bumps in the day were the waits for the nurses to be able to do the next needed step and the fact that Sawyer's nerves made his stomach pump out more unpleasant acid (he's been having trouble with heartburn) and he threw up, then spent the next half hour dealing with excess saliva and generally feeling yucky. Things settled down enough that he decided to try to eat something to help absorb stomach fluids and ended up eating lots of dry Cheerios. That helped! Over the course of the next five hours he received eight different medications. Two for his nausea, two to help alleviate an allergic reaction, one to help cut down on possible pain from the shots, and three different chemo drugs (including the shots). All in all, a typical day at the clinic. He kept distracted by watching some tv, chatting with the nurses and Mark's sister when she stopped by (she's been working at the hospital) and by snoozing once the Benadryl hit his system. We left about 3:30 and he'll spend the evening resting on the couch. Only two more doses of the new medication that has been bothering him with heartburn, bloating and flushed skin. It's a steroid medication that he started taking last week at home (twice a day). He goes off it for a week then back on for a week, then hopefully done with it.