Today completes week 2 of Bobbie's treatment (apparently even cancer treatments get a holiday). The first weekend was pretty rough. Starting on Friday, she had severe nausea throughout the weekend. So much so, that we had to put a call into the doc late Saturday night and he called in 2 replacement nausea prescriptions to a 24-hour pharmacy. They seemed to help, or at least knocked her out cold for a good 10 hours. However, she was really nauseous again throughout Sunday. On Monday (her birthday), he switched up the medications she is receiving during treatment for nausea, pumped a bunch of extra fluid into her and halved the interferon dosage for the week. That seems to have helped as she had a pretty good week all of this week except for some nausea beginning yesterday. They gave her a new nausea medication today that is supposed to last 3-5 days, so here's hoping that gets her through the weekend. Definitely don't want a repeat of last weekend.
The food from both work and neighbors has been flowing in and we have been eating like kings during her treatment thus far. Unfortunately, due to her nausea, she hasn't been able to delve into everything that has been through our kitchen, but she has had the opportunity to get a taste of just about all of it. One of our neighbors made a ridiculously delicious chocolate cake from scratch for her birthday. It was frickin' awesome! I told her that we will do a just celebration of her birthday sometime after she completes the hospital part of the treatment when she is feeling more active.
So, basically 2 weeks down, 2 weeks to go on the roughest part.
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She has to go through all that at home? That must be so hard. Feeling nausous (sp?) has to be the worst - i feel so sorry for her.
I am keeping you both in my prayers.
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