I'm not sure where I left things! :) I don't think I even mentioned that they took a CT scan when I called back the next day and told them that pain pills were not doing anything!

So, ya, they took a CT scan to make sure it wasn't anything really dangerous - like bleeding. Nope, so THEN they took me up to the chemo center and IV'd me for 3 hrs or so with steroids to reduce the inflamation of my liver. They figured that the pain was caused by my liver getting too big and pushing on things that didn't like it! :)

The liver was inflamed from the biopsies. They poked me 3 or 4 different times all over. So..... that worked! I went home feeling SO much better and have been taking some more steroids via pills. I'm almost done with that now and there seems to be no after effects. so WHEW!! dodged a bullet.

The weird thing was sitting in the "chemo chair"! I got some very strange feelings and ended up crying and feeling very out of control. Told JB about it tonight and she said that it sounded like "post-traumatic stress". In a way, I guess because it brought up all sorts of powerlessness feelings and fear and all of that stuff. Feelings I'm sure I experienced when I was actually getting chemo, but were so bound up in the whole experience that I didn't realize how traumatic that whole thing is.
Very strange....