Feb 1, Day +5 More Sleeping Pain

"Just the Facts"-- B had another poor night, excruciating pain, waking you up several times in the night on two different kinds of strong paid meds, and still pain.  Weak, hard to stand, but still trying.

So we knew this would get tough and it is getting more difficult every day, but we are hanging in there.  It is hard to look at your bed, as the source of severe pain, when you are weak and nauseated and that is really the only place to hang out.  B tries to sit in the side chair but after about 15 minutes he is too weak to continue sitting up. He just keeps trying to do the best he can.  So we brought in the air bed and have a nausea drip now and pain meds on request.  I tell him to keep eating, no matter how small.  He's not hungry and the thought of food turns his stomach but he still did order some food and when it came he ate some.  What a good patient.  His platelet are going down, white count is down and red cells are low.  So it is almost time to jump start the bone marrow.  He will get some injections to get this going in a few days.  The pain will return, (if we ever get rid of it) and even though it may hurt, it will translate into cell production and that is what all of this process was for.

Looking at the chart it looks like we only have 2 days of chemo treatments left.  We are just now starting to see the effects of chemo.  This is a process, a means to an end.  We are checking the calendar and tracking the positive days to measure the progress.  The hope is to be totally free from needing blood transfusions because B makes his own red blood cells.  That's the goal and our hope.  Thank you again for the prayers.
Until next time,
Hopeful Believer.