It is Day 3 and I can't tell you how happy I am!
Adrian has been doing above and beyond any expectations. Even the nurses tell him he looks great and they can't believe he doesn't have even one little thing 'wrong'. With wrong I mean, nausea, mouth sore, fatigue. Adrian is doing so well!
A quick recap from this week though... He had chemo from Tuesday - Sunday. High dose was really high dose, it was a lot as of quantity. He said it wasn't the worst he has felt from chemo, but he felt it.
Due to the high dose chemo and a lot of fluids he retained a lot of water. Which he said made him really bloated. He went from around 170lbs to 178lbs on day 2 of chemo.
They gave him a drug called Lasix which helped him get rid or the water and his weight went down again.
He has not experienced andy of the 'normal' side effects at all, like nausea, mouth sores, rash or anything.
On Monday was the new Birthday!!
(I will post a video of the actual transplant when I have finished rebooting my phone : )
They gave him back his 'old' cleaned stem cells. It was 4 bags in total, all of what they took out a while back. Adrian said it was over in 30-45 min, so pretty quick. He also said it was a weird feeling, hard to describe. But it just felt a little strange.
Also what happens when you do a transplant is there is a weird smell. It is from the DMSO - preservatives they use. When we arrived a couple of hours later, it smelled like ketchup in the room. That was from preservatives. It was gone the next day though.
The girls were allowed in the room the very same day as the transplant, they just said put gloves and masks on if you are going to touch anything. Not at all 'in a bubble' like you would imagine.
There are things Aj has to think about now for sure, he can't have fresh veggies, fruit or anything raw like sushi. Everything has to be cooked through. He can't be in crowded public places and should wear a mask when he is out around people. Just as pre cautions not to get sick.
When we came up to the floor, I was so surprised to see him so energetic. We hung out for a couple of hours and then left because he was getting tired.
Yesterday we spend a few hours up in the day room with him in the morning and had lunch, then in the evening we went back and brought a bunch of pizzas and had pizza night. It was really nice. They have the day room (2 of them) which are actually new. They have chairs and tables and a big tv. If it wasn't for those two rooms, I can easily see how you can go stir crazy on the transplant floor.
Before the transplant he was able to walk around the whole hospital, but now he has to stay on the floor.
Adrian has to stay in hospital until his counts go up, can't remember the name of it right now. I'll be back with it.
His WBC right now is 4!!!
It is now 8.15 am and I am waiting for the girls to wake up so we can have breakfast and then head over to say good morning!
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