February 24, 2013: Day 2 (This is now Noelle typing for John) - Happy Sunday to me! This evening, Noelle brought 4 of my 5 kids to visit me. Michael couldn't come because he has the sniffles. It was nice to talk and walk with them and help them feel at ease about where I am and what I am doing.
This is me with Abigail, Emma, Jenna and Isaiah.
February 25, 2013: Day 3 - My nausea continued to increase and made it hard to keep my food down. My energy levels were in the dump and unfortunately, there hasn't been much relief for either problem since then. Because of my difficulty eating and keeping food down then started me on TPN. I don't know what it stands for, but the "N" is nutrition and it is giving to me via IV. Gratefully I have avoided mouth sores, to this point at least, and hope that trend continues. My blood cell counts continue to fall towards 0.
February 26, 2013: Day 4 - I am beginning to understand why Rachael, my Care Coordinator, said that this week would be my hardest in the hospital. I'm on a rotating merry go round of nausea meds, given every 3 hours by IV. My interest in food has basically disappeared and most of that is because I don't want to throw up. I don't know of anyone who enjoys it, but throwing up is my least favorite thing to do.
February 27, 2013: Day 5 - Today we met with Dr. Miller again. He is a pain and rehab specialist. Last week he prescribed for me a new drug called Tramadol. After a week of taking Tramadol with the Gabapentin (which I've been taking since late-December or early January) my neuropathy pain level is typically at a 0, as compared with my typical 2 to 6 pain range with Gabapentin alone. Hallelujah!!! You think I'm happy about that? Darned tootin! I basically ate nothing today, as my TPN takes care of my basic nutrition and makes it easy to avoid nausea issues caused by feeling responsible to eat.
February 28, 2013: Day 6 - Not a whole lot to report. I have been taken off of the oral version of every one of my meds for which there's an IV alternative. That SHOULD help me avoid vomiting so much. Still no mouth sores! I'm pretty much scott-free on that one if we can make it to when my neutrophils and white blood cells really start to make their comebacks, and that's still a handful of days away.
March 1, 2013: Day 7 - my lack of a responsibility to eat has turnied into a lack of desire to do so. I've also begun to develop a pretty sharp pain in my lower-left abdomen, which can make it pretty hard to sit, stand, walk, or even lay down.Well, John...isn't that about everything? Yes. Yes, it is.=0S The pain isn't really that bad on a pain scale, but it's sharp and it's constant, which make it worse. We had an x-ray taken of my abdomen which showed nothing.. So, if the pain continues over the next few days, we'll try a different avenue of analysis.
gosh dad why are there no pictures of me
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