Well, I started out the New Year the way I hope to spend 2012... Sleeping! Haha but really?! I did way too little sleeping in 2011, that I would like to spend 2012 catching up on it. Donnie and me planned on ringing in the New Year together, sitting in his tiny hospital bed watching a movie and kissing at midnight. Well, didn't quite work out that way, by 9 o'clock we could barely stay awake long enough to make it through the end of our movie, so I resigned to Aunt Lu's and Donnie hit the sack. It's just another night, no big deal, right? We are ready to have a healthy, happy, normal 2012 and put 2011 behind us!
On Friday night, Donnie's first bag of chemo went fine at first but after about a hour his face started to hurt him pretty bad and then it became almost unbearable. Then he was very light headed and almost passed out in the bathroom. The doctor gave him some stuff for pain and after about a hour or 2 he felt a little better. He was able to get some sleep that night and by the morning he felt 100%. Yesterday was a rest day, so no chemo. We just hung out most of the day, would have probably been more of the day, if I didn't drive to Santa Monica that morning {stupid California freeways} uggghh. But anyway, it was a good day for him, even though we are both going a little stir crazy in here. You can only play so much Rummikub ;) Today, he had to wake up extra early, 5:30am, to shower and get started on his next bag of chemo. He has to be hooked up to a heart monitor the whole time, so he isn't allowed to get up from the bed. This kind of chemo has a side efffect of low blood pressure. So, he has to be hooked up to a heart monitor the whole time and a nurse has to stay in the room the whole time to monitor him. Since his blood pressure will get so low he won't be able to get out of bed for the duration of the bag, which is 4 hours. He also had to take benydryl right before and then again a hour later. So, he's pretty much been out of it all day. His blood pressure did drop too low about 2 hours in, so they had to stop the chemo till it came back up and then they were able to start it back up. Other than that he has been snoozing the day away, which is great! Better than sick. It's definitely been a boring day to start the new year though haha.
On Friday night, Donnie's first bag of chemo went fine at first but after about a hour his face started to hurt him pretty bad and then it became almost unbearable. Then he was very light headed and almost passed out in the bathroom. The doctor gave him some stuff for pain and after about a hour or 2 he felt a little better. He was able to get some sleep that night and by the morning he felt 100%. Yesterday was a rest day, so no chemo. We just hung out most of the day, would have probably been more of the day, if I didn't drive to Santa Monica that morning {stupid California freeways} uggghh. But anyway, it was a good day for him, even though we are both going a little stir crazy in here. You can only play so much Rummikub ;) Today, he had to wake up extra early, 5:30am, to shower and get started on his next bag of chemo. He has to be hooked up to a heart monitor the whole time, so he isn't allowed to get up from the bed. This kind of chemo has a side efffect of low blood pressure. So, he has to be hooked up to a heart monitor the whole time and a nurse has to stay in the room the whole time to monitor him. Since his blood pressure will get so low he won't be able to get out of bed for the duration of the bag, which is 4 hours. He also had to take benydryl right before and then again a hour later. So, he's pretty much been out of it all day. His blood pressure did drop too low about 2 hours in, so they had to stop the chemo till it came back up and then they were able to start it back up. Other than that he has been snoozing the day away, which is great! Better than sick. It's definitely been a boring day to start the new year though haha.
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