First dose of Hydroxyurea (chemo pill)
About an hour after taking my first dose of Hydroxyurea I felt as if I had swallowed a ball of fire! My stomach was burning so bad, and I started to vomit. So I thought if I ate crackers slowly that it might help soak up what I felt was acid in my stomach and sooth my stomach some. I was able to keep the crackers down. At the time we didn't have a blowup mattress in the tent, so I was laying in a lawn chair that reclined back and the feet raised up. So I laid down in the lawn chair and tried to fall asleep, hoping that if I slept that I might be able to sleep through the rough part of my body adjusting to the medicine. We didn't have a toilet in the tent, and all though my son had a toilet in the house I didn't want to keep bothering them to go inside to use the bathroom and to be honest I didn't think that I would make it. I feel that I need to point out that my son would have allowed us to stay in the house with him and his family! But I didn't want to. They had...