Monday Spet.20,2010

O.K. So today was not what one would call a "red letter day" As previously posted Bryon has been having major bone pain. Today he was supposed to start roung 2 of chemo, didn't happen. Got a call this morning that his sodium levels were really, really low, bring him in now for I.V. sodium,they wouldn't do the chemo until the levels are up. Three hours later and one bag of sodium his levels have only moved up one point. He is in pain, leg cramps, can't walk. No chemo today plus he has an infection to boot. The nurses were great, in fact our G.P. wanted to see Bryon right away in his office, Diane, the patient care co ordinator, got us a wheel chair and came across the street with us to the Dr. office. All this and she was off shift. Dr. F said that if there was a bed Bryon would be in hospital but he felt I could take care of him. One l litre of fluids in a day, more salt and he will check his level on Wednesday. Oh, did I mention that he was very adamant that if Bryon started acting funny or anything, (apparently he is at risk for seizures with such a low sodium level) I was not to hesitate to call 911. His pain meds have been changed to percodan or somethig with oxycontin in it. Bryon does not wine about pain but he really is in pain. Our onocologist is away for the week so we meet with the locum om Wednesday to see when we can start the chemo again. Maybe Thursday if his levels are up. So, that was our fun for the day, 7 hours in the hospital. I told Bryon that next time we go on a date that I get to choose where.
Oh forgot, some of the bone pain is because the medication that he had to inject himself with to get the bone marrow to produce white blood cells have been an over achiever, producing to many cells and causing the bone marrow to swell, thus the bone pain.