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Carry Bag Contents

Here are a few suggestions for what to keep in your "carry bag" during treatment

  • Journal: Write down questions that arise to ask your doctor next time you see them. Capture doctor reminders, suggestions from your nurses as you tend to be more forgetful.

  • Water bottle

  • If you have a port, include your Lidocaine and Prilocaine Cream and large bandaids or clear adhesion stickers (ask Nurse) so you can put a blob of the cream on your port  and cover it 1 hour before port access appointment.

  • Sickness Bag- grab a couple of the blue bags from the nurses or buy a box. Keep a couple tucked in your car and in your treatment bag.

  • Sugar free candies (Jolly Rancher version etc) or ginger candies can help with dry mouth by stimulating saliva or stave off mild nausea

  • Anti-nausea meds if they aren't provided by the Nurse

  • Crackers, Power bar, nuts in case you get hungry.

  • If you are being given blood thinners, buy a box of coagulant, in individual packets in case you cut yourself. I also kept several packets in the trunk of my car in a Emergency bag along with sterile pads just in case.

  • Bandaids

  • Skin Lotion

  • Lightweight blanket, socks, fleece jacket, a warm hat as you tend to get cold when receiving infusions over time

  • Games, deck of cards, a book, adult coloring book & colored pencils, art project to keep distracted and entertained

  • iPad to listen to Audiobooks, podcasts, watch movies as some treatments can make it hard to focus on a book. Choose light topics, more upbeat, as it can be challenging going through treatment

  • Bring ear pods so as to not disturb other patients

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Disclaimer: Information presented in Living With Lung Cancer© & LungPedia© websites and its wiki is not intended as a substitute for the advice given by your healthcare provider. Although this patient resource website and wiki strives to present accurate information, readers should not consider it as professional advice, which can only be given by a health care provider. As all content is anecdotal in nature and based upon personal experiences its author, editors, contributors and its agents shall not be held responsible or in any way liable for the continued currency of the information or for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in this publication, whether arising from negligence or otherwise or for any consequences arising there from. The website and wiki author, editors, contributors and its agents make no representations or warranties, whether express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of the information contained herein or the results to be obtained from using the information. This website, ASK Your Doctor™ and the Patient Alleviation Guide wiki author, editors, contributors and its agents are not engaged in rendering medical or other professional services. If medical or other expert assistance is required the services of a competent professional person should be sought. The publication of advertisement, whether paid or not, is not an endorsement. The contents of Living With Lung Cancer website and LungPedia has copyright and all rights and privileges herein are retained by its author. The contents of this website and wiki may not be reproduced or distributed without the express written permission of the author. The use of this website’s underlying data to train an artificial intelligence program to express a value, or answer, that the underlying data was designed to supply shall be considered an unauthorized use. Living with Lung Cancer, ASK Your Doctor, Symptom Alleviation Guide, LungPedia are all service marks.

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