Last day of Chemo for round one

Chemo - Day 10

I went to work again today and was gone all day this time. Leah from Child Life spent a bunch of time with Jordan today. They watched some movies and just hung out. Jordan had a fairly good day.

Tonight is her last night treatment of Chemo this trip. She only has one more dose in the morning.

Jordan’s World History teacher called today on my cell phone. He said the kids in the class made her a card and he wants to send it to her. Since she is supposed to get out of the hospital tomorrow, I gave him our home address. It turns out he actually lives in our neighborhood.

Suddenly this place is hopping with patients, all the rooms are full. Natalie is still here too. We met her and her parents the first night Jordan was admitted. Natalie is a 13 month old girl who has some type of Cancer. When Jordan got moved to this floor, Natalie had already been here for 45 days straight. She has already had one surgery to remove her left kidney because of a tumor. She was supposed to have surgery on Wednesday to remove a tumor in her left lung. They will also be removing half of her lung. Her blood counts are not high enough for surgery, so it has been postponed.

Jordan is still having the problem with the heart burn. They have now tried other things, but they all only give her a few minutes of relief.

Her chest X-ray was negative and her lungs are clear.

She got weighed tonight (they do this every night) and she only weighed 49.3 kilograms, which translates to 108 pounds. She has lost 10 pounds in two weeks. When she was admitted to the hospital she weighed 118 and two weeks prior to that she weighed 126. Total weight lose at this point is 18 pounds. She is looking thin now. Her collar bones, shoulder blades and hip bones are more prominent.