"Ouch! Sorry I didn’t mean to jump like that. The pain was unexpected." The infusion nurse Kay (not her real name) said, “that’s okay, we don’t need to flush the rest of this saline.” It was the end of an extremely long and stressful day. Let’s start from the beginning.
There I sat in the chair, cheerfully ready to greet a long day. Kay checks me in and hands me the lunch order form. It is Rituxan infusion day and I’m ready to get some B-cells depleted. Symptoms...
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