Weekend Update

Good Afternoon.

Well, our patient is hanging in there. He handled the chemo very well and then we got home and within an hour he began to feel nauseated. He has medicine for this and took it right away and it subsided for the most part. His biggest thorn besides the pain now is his intolerance to cold. He can't drink anything cold and it hurts to put his hand into the fridge.
The problem is he must drink 80 oz. of fluid each day. That is a lot of fluid. Even room temp. drinks hurt. I am praying I will not have to take him into the hospital tomorrow to hydrate him.

He is absolutely exhausted and is dizzy and cold with the occasional chill. He is laying in bed now but was just downstairs eating a ham sandwich at the table with Matt.
Matt just took the boys to the batting cages and all 3 of them spent the night at Stacy's last night. They always have so much fun at her house.

Claudia called me today and wanted to know if I wanted to take the boys to Cirque de Soleil tomorrow in Del Mar! What a great opportunity and special thing for us to be able to go to! The boys are going to LOVE it! Thank you Claudia and John! XO

The Wakelings are coming over tonight to bring us a trundle bed for our spare bedroom upstairs. We have turned the bedroom into sort of a guest room for the time being to accomodate both sets of our parents. It is still housing all of the "playroom" toys but now it is more comfortable for adults! Thank you Wakelings!!!

Gary has not complained once and he is such a trooper. I wish I could help him but the only thing I can do is keep him as comfortable as possible and try to make sure he is taking the right meds as the right time and give him loads of love.

His next appointment is Wednesday AM and then his next treatment is Feb.7th - the day before Zach's 9th birthday. He will have a semi-permanent cath placed in his chest at that time. The benefit of having that in his chest is that the nurses won't have to poke him all the time and try to find veins. The chemo is apparently very destructive on your veins and this will eliminate extra pain from that. Besides, he will be having his blood drawn all of the time for a while.

Sounds fun, huh? Wow. Sometimes I just can't believe we are going through this. His body is full of chemicals that are making him sick and hopefully the good that comes out of this is that these drugs are KICKING OUT THE CANCER!

Please, please, please continue to pray for all of us. The boys are handling this as well as to be expected and I am doing better. Gary is also more positive and we just need to be continually lifted up and prayed for. Believe me when I tell you it makes a HUGE difference!

I will update tomorrow.
Love, L