Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Where did my hair go???

Thomas finished his first round of chemo on the 13th of August. He got really sick, couldn't eat, kept throwing up, and he was really tired all the time. On August 19th he had been having chest pains throughout the day, around 8 pm they were getting worse, so i took his temperature and he had a fever of 102.00!!! So i rushed him to the ER. Once we got to the ER were told them what was going on, and the dr said the wanted to get some blood work and a couple scans, so they came in to get blood cultures, and then they took him to get a chest x-ray and a chest CT scan. The dr came in a little bit later and said his white blood count was very low, it was 0.3.. where a normal blood white count is 3.0-5.2.. so his was low!!! The ER dr called the on call dr at huntsman and told him what his levels were, the dr at Huntsman wanted him admitted to their chemo floor asap!! both the xray and the ct scan came back normal with no findings. So we left the ER at 2:30am and drove to SLC. We got to Huntsman a little after 3am.. the Dr came in and said the plan was to get him on strong antibiotics for several days to get him counts up! So he was in the hospital for 4 days, he was released on the 22nd. In the hospital he wasn't able to eat, he got sores in his mouth, and he kept loosing weight. So the drs decided they wanted to put a feeding tube in, So the nurse came in and put the tube in. It was pretty intense to watch, it wasn't complicated or anything, but it just kept making him gag, and made it hard to breathe when he was gagging, his feeding tube goes through his nose and into his small intestines. He now is at home, he gets hooked up to the IV feeding machine at night, he gets fed 5 cans over a 12 hour period. were trying to get him up to 9 cans but right now his stomach cant handle it. And yesterday was two weeks since his first round of chemo, and his hair started falling out today!! So a few hours ago he shaved his entire body!!! Thomas starts his second round of chemo on Aug 30th!! Enjoy the pictures! I will update again after round 2!!





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