Today was good. Josh has had a new nurse yesterday and today…normally I would be against that but since she is new she only has a couple patients and she stays right on top of things! He really likes her. After chemo was over he got a burger from 5 Guys and ice cream from …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Meteor shower
I almost forgot, I set my alarm clock for 2am but since I haven’t had much sleep lately and Josh kept me up until almost 12:45 I hit the snooze button until 3am. We got up and went outside bundled up and watched the shower for a while. It was nice. Josh really enjoyed it …
Round 4 / day 2
Today went okay. Josh’s is mildly anemic so he got an Aranesp shot. Since Josh is such a baby about needles he was complaining about another needle so the nurse who was new (she just moved here from VA Beach) talked to a few people and got them it okay it going into his port. …
Round 4 chemo begins ; Bleomycin ends
Josh had his doctor visit today along with day 1 of round 4 chemo. The doctor didn’t really give us any new information. After this round of chemo we have a 6 week break then we would do repeat CT’s/MRI’s to see if the cancer is gone. Dr. Schertz did say that removing Bleomycin from …
The Dr. called
Its never good when your doctor calls you on the weekend. Dr. Schertz, the oncologist, called yesterday morning to discuss the results from the pulmonary function test that Josh had last week. We knew the results and that they were bad but he hadn’t had time to review them. He said that he didn’t feel …
Family time
Kobie has been at home with us since Thursday night. I don’t know who is enjoying it more us or him. I know g-ma and g-daddy are going to have a good weekend without motor mouth. Yesterday wasn’t the best day for Josh. He did eat pizza yesterday, I think that was too much for …
Update
It has been a while since I updated but everything is going quite well. Josh finished up his last treatment of round 3 this past Tuesday. So now all he has left is 1 more round of treatment!! Monday Josh had a PFT (pulmonary function test) to see how his lungs are functioning. We knew …
Isn’t this suppose to be the bad week?
Yes, this is supposed to be the bad week but so far it hasn’t! Sunday night was not the greatest but so far Josh hasn’t gotten sick since Saturday night. Yesterday and today he has been really weak. Tuesday he got his bleo treatment. After that he went to work for a little bit. After …
Josh is eating again!!
Josh has been eating all weekend. Lots of stuff…I am so proud of him. Yesterday was a really good day…I think the best one we have had so far in fact. We had to be at the cancer center early for his Neulasta shot then we went to get the oil changed in the car …
Round 3 chemo is over!
Josh finished his round 3 chemo today! Now he has 9 days of chemo left. Two bleo treatments the next 2 tuesdays, 1 more big round and two more bleo treatments after that! He is still having a really good week. Yesterday was kinda rocky…we had to be at the cancer center at 9:30 and …