Day 15 (Chemo Day)

Wednesday February 1, 2012

Today is a Chemo day.

Last night Carl was able to sleep. the two of us were up until 1:45 talking, and making plans, then decided it was time to turn out the lights.

Yesterday morning Carl woke up and his blood sugar was low, but he was not able to eat because of his tests in the morning, so they gave him a shot of sugar to raise his levels. He had his LP (Lumbar Puncture) then laid on a bed still for about an hour. After that time was up they took him to do his Bone Marrow.

Once we came back to the room they checked his blood sugar levels so he could order his lunch. His blood sugar level was so low he had pepperoni, ham, chicken, sausage, pizza...a side salad...green beans...chocolate yogurt shake...then he took a molasses cookie when no one was watching (or so he thought!)  He was a happy camper with how much he ate!

Dinner he had a little problem ordering what he wanted down stairs has him on a different carb. diet than the doctor wants him on, so he was not able to order everything he wanted. He was "STARVING" so I went and got him more food that was low in carbs... he was much better.

We took nice long naps yesterday between lunch and dinner, pretty much the entire time frame... Was nice to catch up from the crazy night before.

This morning the Doctor was is. She is working on getting our appointment's in Chicago set up. When she does this, she will share his blood work with them, if his counts are not high enough they might tell her he needs to wait to come out there. If we go too soon, and he catches something as small as a fever they will hospitalize him out there and we do not want that happening. The doctor also put Carl back on a general diet. Told him he needs to continue to watch what he is eating, but he needs to eat first. She thinks that his sugar levels are so low because we are not allowing him to eat. He is extremely happy about this and we are going to head down to get some food.