Last rituxan treatment

At least for now... Dr. Kubba was on vacation so I had to see one of the other oncs before my treatment. He was 1 hour and 10 minutes late for my scheduled appointment. Finally, he walks into the waiting room - no explanation or apppolgy - just started asking kinda dumb questions 'cause he doesn't know me from Adam. You know me, I was not all warm and fuzzy with him, asked what I absolutely needed to know and off I went to begin my treatment. The nurse easily accessed my port with minimal pain - although you can see where she punctured it - and we begin with the steroid and Benadryl. Once that was done I felt kinda doopy but otherwise ok. It took another 2 hours to run the rituxan into me. There were no other ill effects. Yeah! We headed home and I slept for the entire afternoon. Damn that Benadryl! Took forever to wake up but one I did we finished shearing our alpaca Delight. She had a cria about three days ago and we had previously shorn as much off of her as we could a couple of weeks ago. It would be more accurate to say we hacked off what we could. So, tonight we cleaned her up and she looks lovely. Officially, all of the adult alpacas are shorn and tomorrow we will start shearing the new crias. My big concern there is that sometimes (rarely really but it does happen) the mom get confused after her cria is shorn and she rejects it. So far, knock on wood, we have always managed to convince them to take their baby back. That can be a very unpleasant chore. Back to medical stuff and sorry to ramble. It's 11:15 pm and for me that's pretty late. :) Anyway, I will be scanned in maybe 6 weeks, not sure if it will just be a CT scan or if they will do a PET scan too. Have I mentioned the word scanxiety? It's common among cancer patients - the dread and fear you experience waiting for the results of your most recent scan. I will experience scanxiety waiting for that one. Once we see the results we can decide what to do next. If it is favorable then probably begin maintenance rituxan therapy (one dose every three months). If it is not favorable, or possibly ambiguous then I believe I will have four more rituxan treatments just like the course I just finished.