Chemo begins

The first day of his first round of chemo.  For the induction round, Zac would receive 5 drugs: cisplatin, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, etoposide and methotrexate spread out of the next few weeks.  We were advised to wear gloves when changing him and taking him to the toilet, as well as being scrupulous with hand washing and infection control.

It was also the first time we met Andy, the music therapist.  Andy was a lovely man who attended the ward most Thursdays and enabled the children to have some fun making music on his various instruments.  Zac enjoyed thrashing about on his keyboard, cymbals and glockenspiel and we have a great video of us wheeling him around on his IV stand while the chemo is being dripped into him, smiling and having fun.  I asked Andy if he could play an Oasis song, when he started strumming Live Forever I sang along and laughed at the irony.  I would listen to that song on the mornings I drove into the hospital after staying at home and it always made me smile thinking of this time.