Monday. Day 5 of 10 for this chemo cycle. This is the last day of the 3 medicines. Cytarabine he will continue to have every 12 hours for the next 5 days. But we are done with the Daunorubicin and Etoposide! Those are the harder treatments. The Etoposide has a side effect of lowering your blood pressure too low. They check his blood pressure every 15 minutes for the 4 hours it takes to administer Etoposide. Daunorubicin takes 6 hours to administer. It is red in color. Kinda a funny effect of that one is it turns your pee red! Glad they warned us about that one! :)
Riley is hanging in so well. This morning his labs came back with his red blood cells too low. Yay for the chemo working. Not so great for feeling good. He was so tired I could hardly wake him to take his pills and get weighed. He received 2 units of red blood cells transfused. Later this afternoon he was practically racing me around the halls doing his 15 laps. (one lap for every year old you are... that is the rule:)
The kids went to Phoenix today to stay with Uncle Westen and Aunt LaDawn and cousins. They were very excited. I'm so thankful that we have so many who care for our family and are willing to help us in any way. The kids will have a great time. After work Vince came to the hospital and brought Riley "In & Out". It was a request! He has not had an appetite at all so Vince was so excited to bring him "anything at all"! He ate it all up! AND it tasted good! That is huge! One of the side effects of chemo is that you lose your sense of taste. After In & Out, Riley had some Hershey Chocolate and milk. He took one bite and said it tasted like nothing. He then drank the milk and said it tasted like water. Poor kid. Not fair!
Labs today:
White blood cells: 0.8 (normal 4.5 - 13.5)
Red Blood cells: 7 (normal 13.5 - 17.5) (received 2 units)
Platelets: 36 (normal 150 - 425)
ANC: 104
Blasts: 1
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