We are now ½ way though the third treatment. This round is going very well. Josh is like a different person. He is eating more, feeling better, doing more stuff…just all around a different person. His new craving for the week is Doritos cool ranch. He has met some wonderful people at the cancer center, today …
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Chemo: Round 3 / Day 1
Today started round 3 chemo. Today was a good day which is great since of course it is now time for him to feel bad again. Josh is really nervous about this round since its the first full round being done outpatient but today went okay. His new craving is sour cream and onion chips …
5 year anniversary
Yesterday was Josh & I’s 5 year wedding anniversary. Before he got sick I had planned on us going away for the weekend. He has still been really sick from the chemo so we stayed in all day. Today he seems to be a little better just in time for his next chemo round tomorrow …
Home again, home again
Josh was released on Tuesday late. We didn’t get home until 8:30. I had to go get his medicine yesterday. He is one 2 antibiotics and 1 new nausea medicine that costs almost $80 for 1 week. We are really 1/2 way through, only 2 more chemo rounds to go. He starts the next round …
Sundays update
Josh seems to be in a little more pain today than he has been in. He did keep down a tiny bit of mac and cheese tonight. The doctor making rounds this weekend was Dr. Fintel which was who we originally wanted to see but Schertz had the first available appointment. We really like Fintel. …
Good news & bad news
Josh was transferred to RMH today. It was quite a battle. He was opposed to being transferred but I demanded it. I love FMH and Dr. Barrett BUT he is 28 with stage 3 cancer, we don’t see that at FMH. He is very serious. If he has any chance of healing from this he …
Todays update
Josh didn’t go into surgery until about 4:45ish. The doctor called me from the OR before Josh was even awake to let me know that everything had gone well. I’m working but his room is just down the hall from me so I’m checking on him every few minutes and so far he has not …
Today
Josh has had a rough couple of days. Today his fever went up to almost 103 so I brought him to work with me to be seen in the ER. He has a perirectal abscess which he got from been immunosuppressed due to the chemotherapy. He spend about 4 hours in the ER getting an …
Articles
Last night while I was surfin’ the net I came across an article about what to say to someone who has cancer. The article was very interesting. For the most part I think it was right on. The article talked about how sometimes people don’t know what to say to a cancer patient. I know …
Food
Josh is finally eating better. There are times when I feel like I’m buying groceries for a pregnant woman, he has the strangest cravings. He got a neulasta shot on Thursday. We also scheduled appointments for the next two Bleomycin treatments, an appointment with Dr. Schertz, and set up his next chemo treatments. Dr. Schertz …