Well James was admitted yesterday, he wasn't very happy about it. We got to his room and his face just lit up. They put Thomas the Train stickers all over the room and put tons of toys and books in his room. He gets to take it all home. We sat and played with most of the toys yesterday. They just gave him IV fluids yesterday and I had a lot of paperwork to do. About 5pm he decided he was done playing and was ready to go home. Poor boy has no idea how long he's going to be here for.
Today is chemo day 1. This morning they put in a foley and James didn't even flinch. He got more upset when they made him put a mask on when they changed his broviac caps. The foley is to keep track of his kidney function while he's doing this and I think they test it to see what dose of chemo med to give tomorrow. He starts chemo at 10 and will have it go for 7 hours. They changed his protocol and so he will only have two days of chemo. He will have to take a bath every 6 hours because one of the meds they give, you sweat it out. If they leave it on him it will burn his skin like a sunburn so that's why they do a really good scrub down every 6 hours. He can't have any tape on him and we will change his clothes and sheets every 6 hours also. They will continue this for 12 hours after his last dose tomorrow.
Hopefully he does ok this time. All the doctors and nurses tell me they do this all the time and he will be ok but I'm still nervous. They said he may be able to come home for a week in between cycles but we will see. He is pretty happy today but I'm sure by tomorrow the side effects will kick in and he won't feel great.
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