Tuesday, Feb 7th- We made it here to IMC, we've been here since about 10:00 AM. It's about 1:00 and no chemo meds yet, just getting lots of fluids right now. This first med is hard on his bladder, so they want him to keep it working as much as possible. They finally got his one chemo medicine started about 3:30 and he handled it really well. When I went home this evening, the boys got to facetime Josh from my phone to see and talk to him before Peyton left for baseball practice. I stayed home long enough so that Kylie could have a turn when she got home from dance. Thank you Apple products!
Wednesday, Feb 8th- Josh is doing really good this morning. We made a little trip around the halls this afternoon, to keep his legs working. He threw up once last night, so they gave him a stronger nausea medicine and he slept good most of the night. His doctor came in this morning to check on him. She said his blood work and vitals all look beautiful. Today he'll start treatment about 1:00. He gets all three meds today, so it may be a bit rougher than yesterday, but they are going to double up on the nausea meds.....hopefully it helps. My mom brought Kasen and Kylie up to see Josh this morning.....he loved seeing them. Peyton came back to the hospital with me after his game to watch the North Carolina/Duke game with Josh. Those two always watch that game together, so I was glad Peyton wanted to go and hangout at the hospital.
Thursday, Feb 9th- Josh did pretty dang good yesterday. He ate and drank really well and stayed up all day. He got around to showering last night and that made him feel good and relaxed. He got sick about 4:00 this morning and threw up a bit. They gave him a strong dose of nausea medicine and he's been sleeping since. His doc came in to see him this morning and she said she wants to keep him one more night. She wants to make sure he stays well hydrated.....worrying about renal failure and she said his platelets are a little low so she wants to keep and on that too. His 24 hour med will be done sometime around 4:00 PM and then he'll get his last dose for this round and that takes about an hour to go in.
Friday, Feb 10th- YAY, our last update from the hospital.....this week. Josh sleep ALL day yesterday. Between the chemo meds and all the nausea medicine, he was knocked out. When I got back from Peyton's basketball game about 7:30 he was just coming out of it. Needless to say he wasn't so tired when bedtime rolled around. He was up to getting out of bed, so we took another lap around the hallway. He didn't eat or drink anything at all today. I got him a chocolate shake when I got back last night but he didn't even eat half of it. You know Josh really isn't felling well if he won't even eat ice cream! It turned out to be an interesting night. About 8:30ish they came in to get the routine vitals and noticed that he had a slow heartbeat. The last couple of days his pulse has been in the 60-70 range and last night it was in the mid 40-low 50 range. They called his doctor and she asked that he be put on a monitor and to notify her if it dips below 45. Well, that didn't take long. She was notified and an EKG was ordered. When they were doing the test his pulse sat at 44-45. All night the monitor keep beeping when his pulse dropped to 45 or lower. Josh keep yelling "geez, stupid thing." I'm not sure if it was at the machine or his heart. It made us both a bit nervous but they didn't rush in his room when it went off and his doctor never came in so by about 3:00 am we decided we were tired to get some sleep. His doctor came in about 8:00 this morning and said that he is totally fine. His EKG was normal, just slow and his oxygen intake his good. The slow heartbeat his a reaction to the "I" medicine. She said that he handled this round beautifully.
We finally made it home about 4:00 this afternoon. We were ready to go at noon, but had to stick around longer so Josh could get his nuelasta shot at 3:00. Josh goes in on Thursday to get some blood work done. His doctor wants to make sure his blood counts are normal. If they are low he will need a transfusion right away. We then go into the doctors office Friday. If all is well she will go ahead with the second round of treatments on the 20th. If his blood levels aren't where they should be he will have to wait another week and start on the 27th.
A really, really big huge thanks to my amazing mom who has been here since Saturday helping us out with our kids. She has played mom to them all week and has been taking care of the household duties. Tons and tons of thank yous go out to Josh's Grandpa and Grandma, his brother Justin and his other brother Jason and his wife Amanda for coming to hanging out with Josh at different times so I could make it home to shower, take a little nap and see our kids for a bit and I was able to make it to both of Peyton's basketball games. More big thank yous to all of you who picked up and brought home our kids from all there activities this week. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who are checking on us daily and keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. I honestly could not have made it through this week without all of the help. We are truly blessed!!
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