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 …
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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 …
Going home today
As of 2pm Josh had ate 2 popsicles and 10 crackers so he is coming home later tonight. We have to be back at the oncologist office tomorrow for a shot of Neulasta. Monday he will get a bleo treatment This post was posted on Wednesday July 2, 2008 at 6:50PM
Chemo: Round 2 / Day 5
So round 2 of chemo is done, halfway through! Josh wasn’t able to keep any food down today so the doctor decided to keep him at the hospital until they get the nausea under control. So far he has added one more med for the nausea, Emend which is like the Zofran in terms of …
Today
The nurse today who is my favorite got the doctor to give something stronger for the nausea and she told him how important it is to eat. He ate a few crackers and a few bites of hashbrown casserole! This post was posted on Tuesday July 1, 2008 at 12:40PM
Round 2 chemo
I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated. We came back to the hospital at 8am on Friday for the start of round 2 of chemotherapy. They didn’t start the chemo until almost 5pm. We were quite upset that we had to get there so early for nothing. Thankfully his mood changed when we …
Visiting hours & messages
A few people have asked when visiting hours are at the hospital, since Josh is going to be on the oncology unit there are no visiting hours there. You can visit anytime however he normally goes to sleep around 9 or 10 pm. Also, all of the messages we get on here I have been …
Yesterdays surgery
Yesterday Josh had surgery to insert the port. We arrived at 10am for surgery that was scheduled for 11:15 but as usual they were running behind. He didn’t get taken back for surgery until 12:15. Surgery went well, no complications. We were able to leave around 2pm. Josh had been talking about a slurpee all …