Surprise!!!!!

Yeah we had a big surprise today. Austin got chemo!!!!! Patel came in and said, "Austin will be getting chemo today and over the weekend." WOW!!!! You go Patel!!! He made a decision that we need to go ahead with it. So we go back Saturday and Sunday. He gets five days of chemo. Patel said that way he will be done for thanksgivig. Things are different though. Miss are nurse Dolores giving him treatment. He didn't get benadryl or the steroid and they didn't send medicine home to push through his port. Everything is orally. Stinks. We will see how he does. I am thinking of asking Patel tomorrow why. It it will be hard to give him oral drugs every 6 hours when he is asleep. I use to get up and give meds through his port while he was asleep. It kept him from throwing up so much. So far he is doing well. He got two chemos today and one is new to him. Patel says it will give him diarrhea. He says all of them get it. That should be fun!!! He slept through the chemo part and then woke up for lunch and ate all of his chicken nuggets. He has to drink lots of fluids and can't take a bath because he is till accessed. (Thank goodness I gave him a bath last night) He won't be too happy with not having a bath for five days. So we had a LONG day. We left the house at 7:45 this morning and got home a little after 5:00. So once again we are beat.

Elizabeth