Wednesday Evening

Brody got out of the hospital yesterday about 1 pm or so and came home. He has been doing pretty good however for his chemo he will be getting some each week and will supposed to be on Bactrim (an antibiotic) for 3 days after each round. He has been having problems keeping this down-- I don't think it is general nausea but the taste of this as he usually reverses just trying to swallow... we tried liquid and pills and the quantity he is supposed to get is alot for a little guy-- so of course he doesn't want to take any medicine... even the anti nausea medicine... every dose of medicine has been a fight-- especially when he has lost a fair amount of weight already and doesn't have much of an appetite-- been very stressful for Mom & Dad and of course Brody.

We are trying to time out everything so if he does throw up he doesn't throw up a recent meal-- very difficult-- we came up with a schedule that we think will work but have to stick to it or it throws everything off.

We have been trying to explain to him he has to take the medicine or he will have to go back to the hospital.

We also need to give him an injection once per day for 10 days after the round he gets on every 3rd week... last nights didn't seem to bother him-- the numbing cream works well and the needles on the syringes they gave us are shorter and finer then the ones he got in the hospital.

He drove his jeep around today-- very nice weather (low 70s and sunny)-- played some wii, watched vids, etc... His Brothers got home last night about 8 pm or so-- they have been a big help (mostly).

His leg is feeling better but he still can't walk on it-- hoping this will clear up soon. He also has his Nephrostomy tube in draining his left kidney-- this will be in another week or two at least.

Not alot more to report-- I'm hoping we don't have much excitement and have very little to post on the blog-- in this case boring is good.

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Brody, Bill, Trish, Geordi, and Jaden...