Scare

I know it's late, but I am still a little wired from our day, so I thought I would update everyone.

I am sitting here in the hospital between my two sleeping guys. David is peaceful right now, and Rob is zonked (and it is well deserved).

We started David's chemo yesterday - as planned. It went pretty well, although we didn't get to our hospital room until nearly 5pm, and they started his 4 hours of chemo after that. He did have a couple of episodes of vomiting, but we are pretty sure that was caused by the nasty tasting medicine that they gave him by mouth. He had a peaceful night, but woke up very early this morning. Rob and I spent a short and restless night on a tiny little pull out cot (not even as wide as a twin bed). We rested as well as can be expected, though, so we were grateful for that.

David's second round of chemo was not able to start until about 1pm today. He took his first chemo med. very well. However, about 15 minutes after they started his second med, he sat up in the bed choking and sputtering and crying. He turned bright red all over and then started to turn blue around the mouth. Our nurse - Marian - was especially quick in thinking and pumped him full of Benedryl. They gave him oxygen and did several other things, and he recovered fairly quickly, but it was a huge scare to all of us. The docs said that he was having an allergic reaction to the carrier agent in his chemo. They gave him some steroids and some other stuff to make sure that there was not a secondary flair up. Then his oncology team decided to give him the same chemo drug mixed with a different carrier agent. He just finished this infusion about 30mins ago, and he seemed to tolerate it very well. He was able to be un-hooked from the iv for the night, although his port is still accessed just in case. We should be able to go home in the morning.

Needless to say, we had a scare, but are so grateful for the quickness of the doctors and nurses. We had about 20 people in the room in the matter of a few seconds. David seems to be handling things well for now, and doesn't seem to be too nauseated for the moment - other than when he had that nasty medicine. We will all be glad to get home and have a good night of sleep in more comfortable beds, but it is great that they are letting both Rob and I stay with David while he is going through all these treatments.

Thanks for all your prayers

-Kim