An even dozen

His treatments stopped with the 12th dose yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. At 3am or so he could already tell that he hadn't had a dose. A little after that time he got to feeling not so great again...but things are heading in the direction of him feeling better. Prior to all the doctors coming in Woody and I talked and I asked him if he was going to take the dose if they said that he could and he said that he didn't think so. It was my feeling that it wasn't worth it to push him over "the brink." He had already taken more than most take in their first five days of treatments. When the team came in the attending physician said that there weren't going to be any more treatments this round. So the decision was taken out of Woody's hands--which was what I was hoping would happen.

Now, for what we weren't told up front--"never expect to go home on the day that the treatments end." (We were just told that for the first time today by the attending physician.) So we won't be going home until tomorrow and possibly not till Wednesday. I am not the happiest of campers as things were planned for the way we had been told originally: "five days in...seven out...and five in." I had looked at the calendar and realized that more days were built in from what I "thought" was our day to come home to the day we are to check back in...but it didn't dawn on me...I just went with what we had been told. Woody also said that he was "sad" not to be going home today. I know this will be best as we have to get his system back to working--as a lot has been compromised during these five days of treatment.

They will be doing blood work again this afternoon to see that "things" are heading back in the right direction. They are pumping more fluid into him to get his kidneys working properly again. They keep telling us that usually the problems caused by this treatment are quickly resolved. They said that he will do a lot of sleeping for a couple of days after he gets home and then he should gradually start feeling "normal" again.

One thing that I can already note that is improving is his heart rate--it has slowed down dramatically.