Hi Everyone. I didn't blog last night and don't think I will get the chance again later today so just doing a quick catch-up as Jimmy is needing allot of my time at the moment.
Since yesterday afternoon he has not been feeling great. He is constantly nauseous and totally exhausted. The tingling/numbness in his hands is driving him mad. He sits for 15 minutes and then goes and lies down and this last 20 minutes before he gets agitated and then he is up again. He hasn't slept for the last 2 nights either and this with one sleeping tablet at bedtime and another half at around 2am. He is feeling depressed too. And on top of all this, his back is sore again and I am battling to get him to eat anything. Amazing how quickly the day can change. We woke up yesterday morning, had breakfast and then he announced he wanted to go for a walk. I was like yessss!!! We dressed up like snowmen and went around the block and it was lovely to be outside in the fresh morning air and discuss arbitrary things like peoples pavements.
We went through for chemo this morning and I really thought they were going to tell us that we can go home because they are going to reduce the treatment to once a week but we saw Dr McCreesh and she said that they really don't want to slow the chemo treatment down. The more vigorously he can have the chemo the better for his back as he needs to get mobile again. They have added another anti-nausea tablet to his collection and we have to take him off the sleeping tablets and he now has to have 50mg of Trepiline at bedtime but not after 9:30pm. Thankfully there was only us and one other patient in the clinic this morning so we were done in 3 hours. Even the drive home was too much for Jimmy :(
The house is slowly filling as the kids all start trickling in for the weekend. Shame, and Jimmy was looking so forward to watching Shannon play hockey tomorrow morning. Let's hope he is feeling up to it.
My blessings once again are a thank you to Colleen for the tasty Chicken Curry and the lovely surprise visit from Gill with a huge bunch of St Joseph Lillies, one of my favourite flowers.
Please keep Jimmy in your thoughts and prayers and I look forward to being able to blog with some positive news tomorrow or Sunday.
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