Sunday, March 14, 2010

Sunday morning

Typing from my phone so sorry for the auto correct typos

He continued to have air flow issues and discomfort yesterday so they upped his morphine a bit to make him more comfortable. The thought is that the tumor is pushing up against his diaphragm making it hard to take full breaths and also that his pain was high enough that he doesn't want to move very much which furher depresses his respiration effectiveness and him just being tired.

Upon discussion with his oncologist we decided to start his Chemotherapy last night rather then wait til Monday. We are still waiting for some pathology results that will dictate his course of treatment. We decided the benefit of starting now exceeded any benefit he might have gotten by waiting til Monday.

Last night was a bit rough for us. Trish and I both stayed the night. Brody got a bit delirious last night and was pretty much having waking dreams.. he is very tired. This is a side effect of his morphine. He was talking up a storm, seeing birds fly through his room and wanting me to go get them for him so he could see them better... he was playing Wii games too.  He did keep trying to pull at his IV and stuff so we had to watch him like a hawk... he seemed particularly mad at his brother Jaden. Trish watched him til 4 am (she lost an hour with the time change) while I slept.. he kept her busy. He settled down and went to sleep very soon after Trish laid down so dad has time to type this now. We do think that his delirious spell did help him as he was moving around a lot, his lungs do sound better.

I think that is al I have to write for now.

Thank you to everyone offering the kind words and support.

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