Third to Last Chemo

We just got home from Nick's third to the last chemo (Only Two More) YEAH.

He spent the whole time in the hospital this time sleeping, in fact I had to wake him today - by saying that if he woke up the Doctor could come in and examine him for his release. Then he woke up... we just say he is in his Zone, when he does this and everyone at the hospital agrees that its probably a good place to go when going through this stuff.

Nick came home on a IV pump - We will run IV Fluids until the chemo level in his blood comes down to below 0.01, so until then every 6 hours I will be giving him three pills of leucovorin, which protects the kidneys and every 12 hours I need to change the IV bag to a new one, so that will be like around 2 AM but then he will be getting his leucovorin at 1 am so I may just change it around 1:30 somewhere in there. Then more leucovorin at 7 AM and so on, the home care nurse will be her sometime between 8 am and 10 to draw his blood labs, and if his chemo has dropped I then can take him off the IV, if not we go another 24 hours and they come out then on Saturday morning and draw labs again, then hopefully by then I can take him off the IV pump.

We do have Starr's grad party from College to attend on Saturday - So I am sure Nick will want to be off this pump by then.

I am also adding one of several pictures that they did at the hospital - like a month or so ago - totally forgot all about them. They are all really good!

Will also take a picture of Nick's IV fluid bag and pump - to give you all an Idea of what it is like - It is in a backpack - to make it easy for carrying around the house. But it is also heavy too.