another day of nausea...

if we could just get tims stomach to behave i think he would be feeling pretty good. all the symptoms that they look for while being neutropenic (low white counts) like fevers and chills and infections and ulcers etc...he has none. they just can't seem to stop the stomach issues which messes up his blood work, makes him not want to eat and he keeps losing weight (down to 128 pound yesterday). they have him on 3-4 anti-nausea medications at various times. some are self-dissolving, some are IV and some are in pill form. some of this stuff is like GOLD (just one of his stomach medications costs us about $200.00 for a 14 day supply which isn't too bad i guess since without insurance it would cost $1,100.00 for a 14 day supply). they can't seem to pin-point why he had been so sick. we know that the chemo will cause people to get sick, but he was sick before, during and after the chemo.

this morning we are going to try taking his stomach medication before he gets out of bed and staying there for a bit...i told him he is acting like he has morning sickness!!! (crackers by the bed stand).

yesterday he got platelets and magnesium...they are wanting him to take some oral magnesium also...more pills...great!!! he got sick between the van and the med center yesterday. the pills go in and the pills come out.

well...we are going to day hospital at 9:30am again. (yesterday we were there until around 3pm)

CONGRATS to kelsey for getting the 8th grade student of the year in physical education...she made her dad proud!!!! (and mom too).

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy

ps...HELLO to all my hershey lab budddies. thanks for keeping tabs on us. you guys are great!!!!