The first thing I noticed was there was hardly any rush hour traffic. I think I stopped once for 30 seconds but other than that it was pretty smooth all the way to Scottsdale. I arrived 30 minutes early and spent the rest of the day waiting. The handler quizzed me about any things that are wrong with me right now and also reviewed the supplements I'm taking. Then I waited 45 minutes in that examination room for the doctor. There was no reading material there except a big book of cancers. I read it three or four times and can answer any questions you may have.
The doctor finally came and did my physical and asked me to go to the infusion room. I thought he was coming with me but when I turned around I was alone. I stood there for a half hour constantly reassuring the nurses that work in that room that I wasn't waiting for them to do medical things to me. The handler came later to say that the reason I was waiting was the company who's drug is on trial had asked her to fax my CT test because they hadn't agreed to my being in the drug trial.
Two hours later I had another EKG (I'm surprised I passed because I was agitated) and a blood test. Then it was noon and they finally got the okay from the company and gave me my first dose of the medication. The rules on taking this pill is: take on empty stomach and wait 1 hour to eat.
I had been up since 5 a.m. so I was a little hungry. On the way back to home I passed many restaurants where I could have had a great meal but I couldn't eat till I was home because of the one hour wait.
Now I've taken the dose every day and keep a diary showing when I take the drug and what time I eat after I take it and if there are any side effects.
I worked out on Saturday with a cardio class and today I did Kickboxing. I'm not used to sweating but with the humidity we were all sweating in class. Rather than just humidity it would be nice to have some rain.
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