good morning...

it has been hard to send out accurate updates because things change about every 4 hours or so...

one doctor will come in and say go home and another one will come in and say stay. i am not sure that tim really cared too much yesterday. the last day of this proticol of chemotherapy really throws him for a loop. he is so sick to his stomach that they are giving him about 4 different anti-nausea medications throughout the day...each one packs enough stuff to put an elephant to sleep so tim has been spending the last couple of days in a "zombie zone".

he has two more radiation treatments, one today and one tomorrow. the thoughts from the staff yesterday were that perhaps since he is so sick, they should wait and send him home after his last radiation treatment on wednesday...i was fine with that and he just nodded and went back to sleep. i am not sure he even really knows what day it is anyway but only because we have put him in that state...for the most part things are looking good. we just have to get him past this bad nausea phase and things should be better.

when he does come home this week we have home health ready to come in and deliver IV antibiotics that he will need to be on plus he gets two shots in his stomach each day which i can give (these are for his blood clot). we will have to go back to the "day hospital" pretty regular for transfusion support (platelets and red blood cells as well as potassium and magnesium and other fluids to keep him hydrated).

we have not learned anything new about the next phase...i guess they are trying to get him past this phase first.

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy