Finally-update on round 3

Sorry this update is so late. Last week was a busy week. I was working on the talent show at the elementary school- production was last Friday night. Between it and whatever else, I just never got this note written.

 

First, everyone remained healthy so we got through treatments without any problems with the kids or I getting sick. Thanks for the prayers.

 

Jeff did well with the treatments. Monday was wonderful. No problems at all. Tuesday night was a different story. Because of one thing or another we had a late supper that night. By the time I had it ready and we sat down to eat, Jeff was starting to complain of being cold. I took his temperature which was up a bit to 99.8 (he is consistantly 98.3-98.5). Told him we'd watch it ect. Within a few minutes he was so cold he couldn't stand it. Was in his winter coat, back onto the couch and covered in 6 or 7 blankets.  By the time I was able to slowly peel blankets off of him, and let him in room temp air for 20 minutes or so, his temp was up to 101.9. I called the doctor who said he could take tylenol and I should just watch him for a bit.  The tylenol helped the fever to break and by the time we got into bed, he was having no problems. I did the "mom" check of the temp through the night and he felt fine. The doctor saw him for a few minutes before treatment. Treatment went as scheduled.

 

Jeff had no problems the rest of the week/weekend. As a matter of fact, at one point he said that he was feeling the best he has since he started treatment. Of course, by Monday, he was pretty tired. He's feeling wiped out this week but has not had a rash or any other problems so far this week.

 

He had an apt today. Things are looking good. no problems at all with his blood work or physical exam. The doctor is very pleased. Because we are through 3 of the 6 cycles, Jeff will have a CT scan at some point before his next round of chemo (scheduled May 2) just to make sure the meds are working as they are supposed to- the doctor really has no reason to think it isn't since you can see the change in his neck and he can no longer feel anything in his neck on physical exam.

 

So, all in all, things are going well. Only the episode of freezing on Tuesday night this time. The prayers are working!

ready to start another round

Well, here we go again. Monday starts round 3 of chemo.

 

I'm asking for some prayers this time through.

 

Some of the kids have had colds ect. Please pray Jeff and I don't get one. They (obviously) don't want us there if we are sick.

 

Also, I add that none of the kids get any worse. Matthew seems pretty good today but got up on Friday and had that 'barking' cough kids sometimes get.  By 900 it is usally gone. I didn't hear it at all today.

 

Thirdly, for Jeff that this treatment goes well.  Before his follow up apt last cycle he started with a rash. Looked like a drug reaction to me, I called to let them know and then started giving him some benedryl. Of course, the one time I'd like to be wrong, I'm not. The doctor put him on some prednisone and the rash healed and all went well. The problem is that he is on 2 diffent chemo drugs plus 5 or 6 pre-treatment drugs-most of which are new to him. So any one of them could be the one he is allergic to. We could scrap this treatment regime  but then we'd have to start totally over. The doctor has recommended we continue with what he is doing and hope that any future reactions remain mild.

 

Following this treatment sometime he will have a CT scan to see how things are going- at least that is what the doc told us when we went in at the start of cycle 2.

 

Thank you all.