Woody has chosen to skip dose 4--the 10pm infusion. He feels like he needs time to recover from the rough time that he had this afternoon. This seemed to him like good time to skip a dose as the time change would have put the doses an hour closer together.
He is hoping to get some much deserved rest tonight--but of course when he is awakened every two hours for vital signs--it is rather hard to get very good rest. But he has been dozing a lot of the evening--pretty deeply at times.
Having the extra hours between doses should hopefully help him be stronger for the next dose. The doctor will be here around 5:30am to see how he is doing prior to starting the next scheduled infusion at 6am. The nurses have been making a plan as to how to get him through the doses without such severe side effects. Time will tell! All are trying very hard to make this as easy as possible--unfortunately it is just not easy.
And in case you are counting--he has now had a total of 15 infusions (12 last time and the 3 this time). Dr. Sosman would like him to have as close to 20 as possible. I just did some figuring and "if" he should just take every other dose the rest of this stay, he would get in 20 doses. That "if" of course is dependant on lab work being ok, etc.
Lois,
ReplyDeleteI know this is an extremely hard time for Woody and for you. Just know that many are praying for you both. I hope you both get some much deserved rest tonight. Thinking of you!
Jo