At Home

Brody's labs came back great.

His Serum Creatinine was  0.79 (has to be below 1 for Chemo) so we are somewhat relieved that it went below that as it is indicative that his kidney is not damaged (or at least not severely damaged).

I wrote previously that his Magnesium was high-- it is actually on the low side-- (low magnesium can cause an arrhythmia) the doctor was ok with letting Brody come home as his pain was well managed and his labs were "almost" good. They left his port accessed as they want him to come back in tomorrow for labs-- they could have de-accessed his port but Brody chose to keep it in for another day. His Potassium is now at the low end of normal

Brody got his NG tube out-- he actually was a little afraid of letting the nurse pull it out so he did it himself (with nurse watching)-- did a great job.

The doctor sent us home with a magnesium oxide prescription to try and bump up his magnesium levels-- the suspension can be gritty and not taste good so she wrote it in pill form for Brody to try-- Brody has NEVER taken pills.... this afternoon we practiced a little bit with some orange tic-tacs cut in half and he figured it out after a few tries. We then went to the Movies and saw Smurfs 2 as promised... we got back about a 1/2 hour ago and Brody took his pill (cut in quarters- he needed to take a 1/2 pill (200 mg))-- without issues... yeah... Brody was somewhat excited about his as he really hates taking his Bactrim (Pink Medicine) and he can get this in pill form too.

As mentioned above-- we took the boys (and Lucy from next door) to see Smurfs 2... the boys all enjoyed it and Brody did too-- has been a long wait for him.

Overall a pretty good day....

Obviously more later.

Bill