August 10, 2022

I didn’t write yesterday, I had stuff to take care of at home. Dave is still in the hospital, and we had a pretty chill day yesterday (I am starting to act like this is the new norm). He has been on clear liquids and on some really good drugs, it has helped the pain a lot. My mom is there today sitting with him…. Happy Birthday Mom!!!!! Today they started him on a hard liquid diet. He had some pudding, cream of wheat, coffee with cream and sugar…. you know the essentials. He quit taking the pain medication, so he had a rough night. They finally gave him anxiety medication at 5 am and he slept until 9 am. His labs for today look good, so chemo is expected to start again tomorrow. He stays in hospital for all his chemo and will be there 5-7 days after chemo so they can monitor all his vital signs, labs etc. to make sure everything is good. Like I have stated he is on an extreme chemo regimen, they are going to kill this stuff, so they are hitting it with everything they have. I’m okay with that, I just want him healthy again. We got the biopsy back from the two tumors they removed. One was completely contained and the other one was spreading, that is why they keep putting chemo in his spine, that is where this tumor would spread to his spine and brain. So far there has been no cancer cells in the spinal fluid…. a very good thing, and the chemo they insert in his spine circulates in his brain. Okay, I will update tomorrow when they start giving him all these toxic chemicals – I know it’s the way to cure the cancer, but what it does to your body in that process is horrendous.

August 7, 2022

Sooo. We’re back at it again, I mean we are back at the hospital again 🤦‍♀️. Dave wasn’t feeling well last night and today, he has an extremely sharp stabbing pain on the lower right side, so we called the team at Huntsman and they said go to the emergency room, off we went. They took Dave in for a CT scan and it revealed he has an infection in his intestine close to his colon. Because he is on chemo, he has no white blood cells to help fight this off. They started IV antibiotics and morphine, even with morphine he was still in pain. They decided he needed to stay and moved him over to Huntsman. He was suppose to be readmited on Thursday, but I bet he stays in from now until he is done with this next round of chemo. It suck’s but he is in the best place. The cutest and saddest thing from the last couple of days is “his” cat, Meanie Head. She knows he doesn’t feel good and she will sit outside his bedroom door and just cry for him to let her in. Dave is supposed to be careful around the cats because of toxoplasma, so we don’t let her in. But every time he gets up to use the restroom she is sitting on the counter waiting to give him as much love as possible, she bumps heads, rubs his neck, it is so adorable, she truly loves him and is so worried. Tonight when I came home she ran to the bedroom door thinking he was in there – I felt bad for her. I’m exhausted, so I’m going to bed 😻