Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:52 PM CDT
Luke here...Not too much to report. Things are still going well. Nathan finished his chemo yesterday morning. He has had a fair amount of vomitting today, so we are pushing the "tummy medicine" again. He is, as always, handling it well. Now we are just waiting for the chemo to both do its work and get out of his system. We have to wait for the chemo to be gone before giving him his stem cells back so that the cells aren't attacked by chemo. Day 0, when he gets his cells, is Thursday. The doctors are pleased. His counts have stayed pretty good for a good stretch of this and he hasn't had any fevers or major adverse reactions to the high doses of chemo. His counts are still pretty good, but they took a big dive between yesterday and today and they will continue to fall like that. Between the nasaue and falling counts he is obviously not feeling as well, but he is still handing in there. Some of the daily routines and meds are still a little bit of a struggle, but that is to be expected. The great thing (or at least one of them) is that when he throws a fit about something, it is all verbal and while throwing the fit does what he is supposed to do. For example, when he gets his "line care" where they change the bandage and clean the site where his line leaves his chest, he may scream, but he always holds still like he is supposed to.
Susan and I are doing pretty well too. Nathan continues to be fine with us leaving at the end of the day and we usually get to leave at around 8pm. It is good to have a nice apartment to come "home" to.
That is all for now. Hopefully things don't get too interesting in the days to come.
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