Josh is having surgery today. He is having an endoscopy done as well as a thoracentesis. Upper endoscopy enables the physician to look inside the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum (first part of the small intestine). The procedure might be used to discover the reason for swallowing difficulties, nausea, vomiting, reflux, bleeding, indigestion, abdominal pain, or …
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Still at the hospital
Josh is still in the hospital. He got 3 units of blood on Sunday and is getting 2 more units today. His bone marrow is not functioning properly to sustain him with the amount of blood that it should. With time his bone marrow could start working again or he might need a bone marrow …
At the hospital again
Josh has been sick all week…I’d had enough. I made him go into the ER at Franklin Memorial this afternoon. His temp went up to 103.5, oxygen saturation level is low, blood pressure is really low. They were going to keep him but his bp kept dropping so they transferred him to RMH however he …
Round 4 is over!!
Round 4 ended on Friday. I stayed with Josh all day at the cancer center anxiously awaiting ringing the bell. At 2:15 the chemo was officially over and he rang the bell. I got pictures…lots of pictures even his nurse took pictures of us…crying. After we left the cancer center he wanted the great 611 …
Round 4 / day 3
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 …
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 …