Oveeerrr.

Hooray.. Rituxan is over! Well at least for 6 months. Donnie finished his last treatment last Friday. And he/we are so glad to be done. It actually went really smooth, except for a few minor hiccups. The first time he had it the only side effect he had was itching , but it went away as soon as his IV was done. The second week went fine, no side effects. But the third week he had a really weird side effect. During treatment and immediately after he was perfectly fine, we went to dinner, went out for a little bit with family, came home, and went to bed. But when he woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom he couldn't move his legs. Weird.. I know. It took him like 20 mins just to walk 20 feet. He said it felt as if his knees were cemented and to bend them was excruciatingly painful. He couldn't lift his legs, bend his knees or really walk. He never woke me that night, he just did it himself but when he woke up in the morning I could hear the worry in his voice and how much pain he was in. So I ran him a really warm bath and called the doctor. He sat in the bath for a good hour. He said they felt better but they were still painful. The doctor told me that it is a pretty common side effect with this drug and to just watch for chills, fever, confusion and blurred vision because that could be a sign that it is a nervous system infection. Which I mean honestly scared me a little. This drug makes Donnies immune system almost non-existent, so he is susceptible to all kinds of stuff. Long story short ha.. it was gone the next morning. It was really painful for him and I felt awful because there was really nothing I could do for him, except take his pants on and off :-) haha all kidding aside, I'm glad that it only lasted 24 hours. After the last treatment we were pretty worried that it would happen to him again but lucky for him it didn't. We are just glad for that treatment to be over because it sucked to be stuck there every Friday for 5 hours. We want to do fun stuff on our days together :)