[singlepic=16,500,400]Last Tuesday Doug was rushed to the hospital in respiratory distress.\u00a0 This is a picture of him on the ventilator.\u00a0 He had no less than 5 IVs going in him at any one time.\u00a0 Today, he was strong enough to restart radiation.\u00a0 He has lost quite a bit of weight, he weighed in today at 175 pounds which is almost 10 pounds down from the last time he had chemo (about 10 days ago).\u00a0 He is trying to up the amount of “tube food” he takes in daily to 6-7 cans, we currently get an average of 4 cans (although yesterday he did get 5 cans in).\u00a0 The goal is 7 cans, but it is hard to squeeze that many cans in one day, so today’s goal is 6 cans.<\/p>\n
He will restart chemo later this week.\u00a0 We have 15 days of radiation and 3 chemo sessions left until he is done with treatment.\u00a0 It seems like so little, but when you are going through it, it is still quite a bit.\u00a0 We did learn that lip balm can amplify the effects of radiation, he had been wearing lip balm when getting his treatments and this may have led to the horrible lip sores he suffered from.\u00a0\u00a0 He wants to start back on the Duragesic patches (pain control), but I am hesitant to do this since we still don’t know for sure what exactly happened to cause the problem last week.\u00a0 They are unsure if it was the Duragesic (fentynl)patches alone, or combined with dehydration and vomiting that caused the problem.\u00a0 The doctor said we can start back at 50mcg tomorrow morning, so I guess I will bend because I don’t want him to be in pain, but only with super, duper, extra- close supervision. . . I cannot do a repeat of last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[singlepic=16,500,400]Last Tuesday Doug was rushed to the hospital in respiratory distress.\u00a0 This is a picture of him on the ventilator.\u00a0 He had no less than 5 IVs going in him at any one time.\u00a0 Today, he was strong enough to … Continue reading