Back Home at the Infusion Center

Sounds funny but coming in and seeing the nurses was a real comfort for Nanc today. Given that the week was so hard, she felt better just being here. We had heard that patients come in on off days for comfort - we now see why.

On our first day here last week, she swore she'd never sit in the common area. Today she was totally comfortable sitting with the other patients. Funny how a week of chemo will change one's perspective...

Her blood work today showed that she's majorly dehydrated so they are re-hydrating and adding electrolytes as well. We met with the social worker, the pain management team and a new fellow on Leuchter's team. It looks like we need to make three changes:
1. Change the laxative to something less taxing on her system. She's been having some gastric reactions to the senna.
2. Get more aggressive with a different antacid. Part of her problem has been due to her stomach.
3. A totally different regime of anti-nausea medications.

So, here we sit, watching the drip, drip, drip, waiting for a second blood work to be done to be sure her potassium level gets up to a point where she can stake a second litre of fluid. They want to keep her overnight and then she'll have her chemo treatment in the morning.

But, here's the good news. She came in today beaten and hopeless and after meeting with everyone, she is now hopeful and feeling much better...

And this new fellow, Dr. Jennifer Lang, is very cool. She was relating to Nanc about another of her patients who had a very tough time as well and was able to make it through the entire 6 rounds. When she left, she gave Nanc a big hug and even had a tear in her eye. Not something you see in a Dr. too often...

Anyway, we were impressed and Nanc is feeling much better about moving forward. If we could just settle her stomach a little bit more, she'd be even better. They just put in some IV Zantac so we'll see how that works.

More pictures to come soon...

xoxo