His second dose got underway at 6am...so it is about finished as they only take 15 minutes.
It has been a pretty rough night. It is amazing to me how quickly medicine can "mess" with you! We thought that Woody was going to miss having the rigors (shakes/quakes) as those have happened in the past about 1 1/2 to 2 hours after the infusion, but about 4 hours after he had the first dose he got up to go to the bathroom and he got chilled and the rigors started. But he had already had a dose of what they give him for rigors...they gave him a dose of that for pain just prior to the first IL-2 dose. So since he had already had a dose, the dose the nurse gave him for his shakes seemed to quell them fairly quickly and he soon went to sleep. He also has been nauseated and has run a fever. He has gone from one extreme to another--at one point he was shaking from chills and soon after he was hot due to a fever. He has been drinking. At this point his creatinine levels are still in the normal range. Praise God!
The second dose is now finished and the line is being flushed with the dextrose 5% solution. Woody is sleeping at the moment. I'm praying that this 8 hours is better than the last! But I know that in reality that the medicine is building up in his body--so he is probably not going to feel a lot better.
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