Good morning. I didn't get to the blog yesterday - we had a quiet relaxing Saturday of watching movies, resting and being together. Ed is feeling better yesterday and today - the symptoms that have been so bothersome - the nausea, vomiting and diarrhea - have subsided quite a bit in the last 24 hours - so he doesn't need so many of the meds. He slept more organically yesterday - it was a natural sleep instead of induced by the drowsiness of the meds. No vomiting for 24 hours now - his usual afternoon bout was just a few waves of nausea that didn't go any further, thank goodness. It's such a beautiful day - I hope he'll be feeling like a short car ride today.
We will be going to Dr. Menco at 9:45 Monday morning and if all his labs are as expected, we anticipate the next round of chemo to start Tuesday. It will involve a hospital stay of 3-4 days with 4 chemo infusions - each one 2 hours long in a 12 hour period. It will be the same drugs they used in the first chemo, just in a different combination, with the addition of the Rituxan. It will be a rough few days, but I will keep you up to date daily. Now that we have some idea of how the side effects go and have experienced the commitment of the doctors and nurses armed with their arsenal of symtom management tools, it feels a little less frightening than the first time. He has come out the other side of the difficulty the past few days and that is encouraging- there is light at the end of the tunnel of tough side-effects.
Enjoy your Sunday - again, thanks for the cards that keep arriving. And Ed says thanks to Joann and Kevin who managed to find some Coors Light and Coors Original flannel PJ bottoms. We will be taking those to the hospital this week along with his Sponge-Bob Square-Pants and Garfield-on-a-Harley pjs. I wonder if there are flannel "Factor" pjs?????
Later all.
Liz
Praying that the labs will all be OK and you can proceed on Tuesday. Remember what GI Joe said, "Knowing is half the battle!" You'll do a lot better this time knowing what to expect, and who knows, maybe with the addition of Rituxan it might even be better?! xoxo - jeanne
ReplyDeleteHi Ed and Liz: Caught up with the status today and am glad to see that things are going well and treatment is rocking along. Sounds like you've done a great job keeping up with things and nice to see that Ed is listening dutifully to instructions (haha!) :-). Liz, hope you are getting time to rest. Congratulations on the marriage plans, that's wonderful news and I'm so happy for both of you. If there is ANYTHING I can do (attorney service, picking up files, finding forms, information, etc.) just ask -- no charge of course -- what good is knowing a lawyer if you can't get some real help for something truly important!? Hope you are able to relax and dream of a nice long ride....wind in your hair...sun on your face...bugs in your teeth...what more could you ask for? Much love to you both and best of luck with Round II this week. Karen Gabler kgabler@nchc.com.
ReplyDelete