It's 3am and we are having our first blood tranfusion. Red blood is on the menu tonite, have that movie, "Love at First Bite" with that tanned guy in it in my head. His his heart rate was way up because his blood counts were down and his body was working harder to get oxygen. White blood cells are still OK, starting to learn the numbers of what is normal and so on.
He is done with his first round of chemo, that Cisplatin is a bugger. He is not really eating at all and is now on IV nutrition. They tried to put in a feeding tube to his stomach but that did not go so well so we just have to get him eating again. Very hard to watch him lose weight when he was such a good eater before. Looks like they will begin harvesting stem cells around New Years and next round of chemo starts second week of January.
Pray that we get home for Xmas. Still have not gotten one present for the kids, hopefully tomorrow we will get a few hours away.
Wow, this is a really depressing post. On the brighter side, the transfusion should make him feel better and he had half a graham cracker tonite. That's progress and I will take it anywhere I can get it.
Ivy,
ReplyDeleteThinking of you guys this Christmas Eve! May try to stop over tomorrow to say hi. Let me know what you need. A couple months ago I gave Bernadette her daily Lovenox shots. I realize it would be a little more difficult with Junior but I would be glad to do it if you need me to. How's the little guy doing?
Shana
I would love to show you our little set up over here. I have home care coming by tomorrow at 3:30, feel free to stop by after 5:00 or so. Jrs counts are bottomed out right now so just you if that is OK. I am the hand washing Nazi right now!
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