Moved to a larger room

Chemo - Day 6

She didn’t get much sleep last night because the 10 hour Chemo session is interrupted quite a bit. During the 4 hour DAUN IV drip, her blood pressure has to be taken every 15 minutes. We are hoping that during her next cycle, they will do these long sessions during the day instead of at night. At least her nights should be more peaceful, even though she still gets woken up every four hours for vitals and eye drops.

The rest of this week should go smoothly, as she will get the GMTZ today and then she only has the AraC pushes for the next four days.

Hopefully the aching in her legs will subside. Her back pain seems to be diminishing and she mostly complains about her legs aching. This is a common side effect from the Chemo and it seems to bother her quite a bit.

Her nurse Tylee removed the needles from her port today and left them off for a few hours. The area from the port looked like it is healing nicely. She actually has two ports under the skin. They put in two of them because when she went into surgery they were still going with the notion that she had bone cancer. Bone cancer requires two ports for treatment. When she goes home they will take out the needle and you won’t really be able to tell she has the port under the surface. It will be noticeable to her and anyone who looks closely, because the skin rises up just a bit.

When Tylee accessed the port again, she only put in one needle, since they only need one to treat Leukemia.

They moved us to Room 233 today. It’s a much bigger room and has enough space to allow for a blow up air mattress if I want to bring one to sleep on. I’ve been sleeping in a recliner, next to her bed this whole time. It’s comfortable enough, and I’m able to get a good amount of sleep, even through all the interruptions with the Nurse’s taking her blood pressure and temperature.