Thursday--feeling better

Brody feels relatively well today.

Brody was pretty tired yesterday and slept a good portion of the day. He did perk up in the evening and played some Wii with his brothers and we watched the rest of the movie "Twister" which is one of Brody's favorites for some reason. He didn't eat anything yesterday until last night (still having nausea from the chemo)-- he ate about a 1/2 piece of pizza.

His left kidney is not producing much urine out of his nephrostomy tube.... almost all his kidney function is in his right now. Brody already had decreased kidney function in his left from his radiation therapy as part of his initial treatment 2 years ago-- it could be further reduced from his tumor pressing against the left kidney and occluding the blood supply to it.

He has had pretty frequent small bowel movements since the weekend. The doctors think it is possible he has a partial bowel obstruction from the tumor pressing against his bowels and only a little bit is getting past it at a time. The docs want him to take some miralax but he slept a bunch yesterday, and had some nausea and didn't like the taste of it as it didn't dissolve very well so he didn't get much yesterday.

Today he ate a little bit of breakfast--eggs and banana and has been sipping his miralax (which got dissolved in hot water before being mixed with his hawaiian punch this time) and he seems to like it better-- no grit.

He did sleep all night last night-- (11 to 7 am) which is a rarity at the hospital... and when Brody sleeps well, so do we.

We just found out that Brody needs blood.... which should give him some more energy.

Me and Trish are doing ok-- I've been here since Saturday night when Brody got admitted... Trish has stayed the last 2 nights when we had someone to watch the boys.

We are hoping to be able to go home tomorrow-- Brody doesn't have a fever now and he doesn't seem to be having any pain. He just got weighed and weighs 44 pounds-- only a pound less then when he was admitted however this just could be mainly from changes in how hydrated he is now as compared to when he was admitted-- he was walking ok around the ward.

Enjoying him feeling somewhat normal.

More later