More family arrives

Chemo - Day 2

Jordan was a bit sick today, some due to her nerves and some of it due to the Chemo. She also slept a lot. She had the “push” of Chemo this morning at 10:35 and doesn’t have any more until tonight at 10:35 pm.

Jason, Jody and Tom arrived today. They flew late last night and arrived at the hospital about 10:30 am. They arrived right in the middle of her having a bad episode. She was in a lot of pain, and throwing up. She had a panic attack because her back started to ache and I asked her when her last Motrin was given. She started to get a bit frantic because she thought the last time she had Motrin was at 11pm the night before and now it was 11 am. She is supposed to have Motrin every 6 hours. She started saying that the Nurse forgot to give her the dose and now she was in pain. When she gets anxious, her mood and pain changes dramatically. In actuality the Nurse didn’t forget to give her the Motrin and she was just about due for another dose. Once she got the new dose and after she threw up, she felt much better and was able to calm down and visit with everyone.

Jason had blood drawn today to have HLA typing done. They are testing for A,B,C and DR typing. I don’t know what this means, but apparently it is the preliminary tests to determine if he can be a bone marrow match to Jordan. If these are found to match, they do further testing. He has a 25% chance of matching her exactly. We are keeping our fingers crossed that he matches. If he matches, Jordan will benefit from getting his bone marrow and will undergo less Chemo. They would have to harvest Jason’s bone marrow and transplant it into Jordan. A bone marrow transplant isn’t done until after the 3rd session of Chemo. They first have to make sure she doesn’t have any signs of Leukemia in her body before they transplant healthy bone marrow.

Jordan had the same nurses today, Aimee at night and Tylee during the day. At the end of the day shift Tylee gave Jordan some concoction of medicine that made her very loopy. Danny and I were laughing so hard at how she was behaving. The medicine affected her and it seemed like she was drunk or high on drugs. At least now we’ll know how she’ll act if she ever tries drinking or drugs. Danny video taped her a bit, but watching the video is nothing like how she was behaving. It was fun night and we needed the entertainment, and more importantly she needed the laugh too. It was good for her.