Day -5

This morning I went for a jog. It was a beautiful path with large trees on both sides that canopied over it. (Don’t worry mom there was a ton of other joggers, and walkers, almost too many. There was also plenty of medical staff between the hospital and the path.) As soon as I got back to the room Bridger peaked his bright eyes out from under his covers and in a whisper said “Hi mom, the nurse snuck in here with out waking dad up. Giggle, giggle”. We then rushed to give him a bath because he had to have an EKG done before he could have his new chemo which was in 30 min. We made it just in time. He even got a little bit of bacon down before we started the chemo. The new chemo started at 11:00am. It made him real sick almost instantly and he was puking by noon. It has been constant regardless of the anti nausea meds. He is really being a trooper and hasn’t even let out one complaint. He watched a cartoon for the first hour and fought to stay awake (they gave him some meds that make you sleepy). The nurses were surprised he held on so long. On the second go around of Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Episodes 1 – 4, we had to put the show on pause for some reason and before I could say, “I love you”, he was asleep. He has been trying to sleep ever since. But with this particular chemo it has a lot of side affects and allergies. They constantly monitor his heart rate, respirations, blood pressure and oxygen saturation. All these levels were going out of wack at some time or another. He spiked a fever and they had to continually make adjustments to medications to help regulate his fever and take precautions for potential infections. I was really scared once when his hands broke out with a rash. The rash seemed to concentrate in areas that were affected last year when he was in the hospital with septic shock. Luckily the rash ended up going away about 30 minutes later and was just one of the side affects from the chemo. The experience has brought some old emotions back. I told the nurse I could handle all the puking, fevers, and blood and platelet transfusions, but I didn’t think I could handle Bridger going through septic shock again. As I’m writing this, Bridger just woke up and said, “I’m feeling better mom.” He’s now eating ice chips and sucking on a sucker. Next chemo is at 8 pm. Wish us luck.
Bridger playing Video games a couple of days ago.


Bridger in the morning before chemo.

Our room

Bridger During chemo.