DONE with Chemo.

We went today and Jason finished his last round of bleomycin ever!!! Wahoo. Now we still have to do the restaging in like 3 weeks but that was a milestone accomplished. This will be the first time since August that we will not have to be at the hospital this week. We are so excited. His white count was a little low and he feeling pretty tired and puny (me too) apparently there is a small stomach virus making its rounds in our house. So far Jason and I have been lucky but Ronan got sick last night BOO! He still has the picc line in and that will not come out for at least another 6 weeks depending on the results. Well now we celebrate Thanksgiving and remember exactly what we are thankful for! Kimmy

Almost done!

So the last time I posted we were waiting in the hospital waiting on his chemo. They actually got started before midnight, it was amazing. We did go visit some friends that were in there and on the same floor as us. That was neat and certainly broke up alittle of the monotony. It was pretty uneventful. They did do a pulmonary function test on Jason, they had to redo it a couple times because his numbers were low but he got them up where they needed to be. They did this because of the blood clots and because of the bleomycin. He came back and was very tired from this. He did have some nausea two days (no vomiting) but it was nothing some IV meds didnt stop. We figured that he has been incredibly lucky so far and we would take that little bit instride. We were released with no meds other than the Neupogen to add on so that was a relief. It was one less to keep track of. He had his next to last outpatient Bleomycin today. It was breeze as usual. His magnesium is still alittle low even with the supplements so Zita(Dr. Tannir's Physician Assistant) wants him to eat avocados and nuts as snacks for right now, as these are naturally rich in magnesium. His iron is still low but nothing to warrant worry and best of all his white counts are doing fine. We got the dates for his restaging it will be Dec7th. We will see Dr. Tannir for the results on the 8th. Thank goodness we do not have to wait a week or so. Well I will write more when there is more to write. Love to all and keep those prayers coming.

Kimmy

Welcome to the Rock!

Blogspot ate my blog. So here we go again. We saw Dr. Tannir yesterday and what blood test were ready when we saw him were okay. He also said that there is a Slim chance that Jason will not have to have surgery. If there are anytumors left that are smaller than 2cm we will just keep an eye on them for awhile. He said that he would rather not have to do the surgery because of the fact that the big tumor involved bone and muscle and that Jason has blood clots now. Side note he will be on the blood thinners for a minimum of six months. We will do the restaging the first week of December (they redo all the scans to see how the chemo worked). We are currently in the hospital hopefully for the last round of inpatient ever!! Maybe we will get the chemo before midnight. Here's hoping.

Home Stretch, Here we come.

So alot has happened since our last blog. I know I'm sorry for not updating sooner. Lets see I passed the return demonstration even if our nurse was part nazi. We got home with tons of medicine and bandages and stuff but I have got a system down now. (it involves dry erase boards and a lot of colored markers). He has not had anymore trouble breathing but is crazy tired this go round which is to be expected. We went to for Bleo on Friday and his white cells were great (due to neupogen) but he is a tad anemic and his magenesium was down, so that meant more medicine. Halloween was fun, we went over to Billie and Jason;s (my sister) and had food and took Ronan and Tatum trick or treating. Jason made it to about two houses watching Ronan before he got tired but hey at least he made some. Mimi and Pop passed out candy while Roo and Tate watched the steady stream of older treaters and Jason squared watched the UT OU game. We came back home around 8:30 and J crashed out as did Ronan. We go back into the hospital of hopefully our last ever chemo 1-5 days on Friday if I can get them to correct his schedule. He then has his two Bleos and we should be done the week before Thanksgiving. They will probably restage(go through and do all the scans to see what is left if anything) the week after Thanksgiving. Keep up the prayers we need them in the next coming weeks. Peace out.
Kimmy