Today we are slightly over half way through the treatment.\u00a0 Doug woke up today not feeling very well, his mouth is unbelievable.\u00a0 The sores he has on his lips now appear to have sores on top of them.\u00a0 They bleed and crust over and make nasty gunk that oozes (those are all technical nursing terms, by the way!)\u00a0 He keeps rinsing his mouth out with baking soda and salt water which help some, but only to get the crusty stuff off and only temporarily.\u00a0 Over the last 24 hours, he has eaten and kept down one piece of Texas toast and one can of food that went down his stomach tube.\u00a0 He has thrown up everything else he has eaten.\u00a0 We are not sure why, it may be due to the increase in the dose of the Duragesic (fentenyl) patch which is for pain.\u00a0 Today, I got him to get down about 4 ounces of canned food in the tube, and he is sleeping on the chair next to me.\u00a0 I will try again to get the rest of the can down when he wakes up.\u00a0 My job today is to be the food police and my duty is to try to get some calories down that skinny man and to keep them in him.<\/p>\n
Cancer is such a horrible thing to deal with, whether you are the patient or the loved one.\u00a0 While I am sure that dealing with the sore throat, mouth sores, vomiting, fatigue and face rash are miserable, it is so hard as the spouse to see your husband like this http:\/\/pharmacieinde.fr\/viagra-pour-femme<\/a>.\u00a0 I look at a picture of the two of us every morning on our dresser, it is from our last cruise, we are dressed up and beaming.\u00a0 Lots of color on our faces from the sun, and our smiles bright from all the fun we had been having.\u00a0 Then I look over in the bed and see him now.\u00a0 He is so skinny, like a shell of the man in the picture.\u00a0 His face blochy from the rash, his mouth oozing pus from the sores on his lips.\u00a0 He is bald now, no hair on his face or head, just some new patches of white hair that have defied the chemo and grew out.\u00a0 I know this is temporary, but it is so hard to look at the man you love and see what cancer and it’s treatment have done to him.\u00a0 So while it is hard for the patient, as the caregiver, it is a difficult battle as well.\u00a0 All of us know someone who has or had cancer and while each type is different and the treatment is different for each person, I want you to know that the person standing behind the cancer survivor is a mental wreck and probably needs a hug too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we are slightly over half way through the treatment.\u00a0 Doug woke up today not feeling very well, his mouth is unbelievable.\u00a0 The sores he has on his lips now appear to have sores on top of them.\u00a0 They bleed … Continue reading