Monday, August 11, 2014

Reality bites


Friday morning we headed back to clinic after our 11-day break. Yup, it was hard. According to her nurse, her counts were "beautiful," and so on to Delayed Intensification...

After a lumbar puncture with chemo, she got vincristine and a new chemo for her, doxorubicin. By the time we headed down to the pharmacy to wait for her dexamethasone prescription, she was done. 

Her dex dosage is about 60% higher in this phase than it was in induction, but it's one week on, one week off, one week on - so we'll see how it goes. She's up and down - dancing and singing one minute, whining and clingy the next. These video clips tell the story well:

  

Today's chemo seemed to go fine (peg-asparaginase), but the end of the day was rough. Lots of crying and complaints of belly pain. Anti-nausea meds didn't do the trick and she couldn't keep her nighttime meds down. Hopefully she'll get a good night's sleep and feel a little better in the morning. Day 4 of this 56 day phase...

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