Josh had a CT done on Saturday to rule out a bowel obstruction. To save his body and time they went ahead and scaned his chest, abdomen, and pelvis for the bowel obstruction and to see if the cancer was gone. There was no bowel obstruction, they don’t know what is making his stomach hurt …
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Surgery went well
Surgery went wall today. They took him back about 12:15 and he got out around 3. They drained over 2 liters of fluid from his left lung. Josh said that the doctor said that he would have to do it two more times to get all the fluid off. I didn’t get to speak with …
Surgery today
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 …
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 …