Well - Nathan has been under the weather. He was OK over the weekend until he threw up Sunday night. He had been having alot of loose stools which is normal for him - especially post-chemo. The vomitting also has occurred post-chemo too. Monday morning he woke up and was extremely emotional and coughing. I kept him home and he was pretty lethargic all day. Starting last night he began having frequent diarrhea and threw-up again. I went ahead and took him in to the clinic today instead of tomorrow. The doctor highly suspects he as a virus that is going around - and that it is not chemo related. His counts were all a little lower but his immunity is still in a good range. His platelets are dropping which we expected. They are still OK at 53,000. That is low but not tranfusion level. He has lost 2 pounds in about a week. I took one look at him this morning and could tell. He has been eating pretty well, but the amount of stuff moving through him is too high. With his very frequent diarrea today we are only able to give him certain foods which isn't helping matters. I am trying to get him to drink alot. He wasn't too dehydrated but he will get that way fast if he won't drink. As I write this he is complaining to me about being tired of drinking. I keep telling him he will have to go spend a few hours in the clinic getting fluid if he doesn't. We could have done that today but I thought I would see how he does at home.
I imagine he will stay home tomorrow again then I am hoping he is well enough to go to school by Thursday. He has an appointment with the audiologist and ear doctor on Thursday. He goes back to the clinic on Monday. We didn't see his regular doc today so we don't know if there is any new information on the vaccine trial. I left him a note asking him to call me this week if he does hear anything.
No baby yet for me...I am hoping for sometime after next Monday. I go back to the doctor this Thursday for my 38 week appointment and I am hoping that when they check me I have dilated some. I had quite a few contractions on Sunday so perhaps things are moving in the right direction.
I will update again at the end of the week.
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