Round 2 Cycle 3 + Hearing + X-RAYS

“I’ll take…

’Not Looking Forward to Chemo’ for $2,000, Alex”.

We like to watch Jeopardy as a family. Eli knows a lot of stuff and has always been good at retaining the information that he cares about and other random trivia.

When we watch Wheel of Fortune, we yell at the contestants that buy vowels. I’ll never understand that strategy.

Our strategy with this cancer continues to be mopping up any rogue cells post-surgery. We had a good almost three weeks off, other than some clinic visits to check counts.

We were able to help out at the baseball fundraiser dance and I know he loved seeing everyone.

We had a snowy week and crutches make me really nervous in the snow.

We went to clinic on Friday, which happened to be Valentine’s Day and he had lost his appetite a couple of days before. He wasn’t feeling good before treatment began and slept literally ALL day Saturday but by Sunday he was feeling good and his appetite had returned and he was hungry.

He stayed awake all day and continued to feel good Monday. He played Uno with his nurses. His levels were dropping like they should but I wasn’t hopeful that he’d be low enough to leave when they drew labs at 430pm. We took some guesses. I thought he’d be at .11 and Eli said .12. He came back at .10.

We redrew labs at 10pm and by midnight we were discharged after he got to .09. I didn’t care how late it was, we were definitely sleeping in our own beds!

His hearing was rechecked on Wednesday and the audiologist said the hair follicles in his ears look really good. He only has one more Cisplat treatment so that was encouraging to hear, literally. She said he has really good hearing and this seemed like an unexpected and overwhelming positive outcome.

“I’ll take…

’Sounds Like…’ for $2,000, Alex”.

His 6 week xray was performed today and nothing has loosened and hardware looks good. He even has some bone callousing around the implant which is a sign of healing and growth. The incision continues to look good. He was instructed to continue to stretch it straight, bend it more than 90° and do some leg lifts to wake up his sleepy quad. But Dr M said he’s doing better than most. We have a PT appointment next week.

“I’ll take…

’Bone Growth’ for $2,000, Alex”.

His hair is gone again and it’s been about 2.5 weeks since the last Cisplat treatment so we knew it was coming but he was enjoying the regrowth.

We’ve got an early morning checking in at 8:15am, but that just means we get started earlier and maybe can leave earlier. This is the last treatment to round out Cycle 3 and we are officially half way there! WOAH!