KD has his famous tour of the Shands cancer facilities today. We almost didn't get there because there was some crazy accident in front of the University that involved someone lying on the street (super bad looking), and you know traffic around campus at that time of day is already a disaster.
Anyhow, I dropped him off for his labs and to see who got to poke, prod, or zap him first. The clinic had him already so they got dibs. He had his lumbar puncture in the late morning. I met him at the Cancer Pavilion down the street (sounds festive, right .. pavilion?) after lunch for the radiation. He was still stoned out of his mind from the Ativan from the LP. So of course the radio-therapy (another festive sounding phrase) went just fine.
When we got home I had to literally scrape him out of the car with a giant spatula though. He was totally worn out. He slept the better part of the day, with the cat curled up under the blankets with him of course. And then he spent the evening sitting in his chair like a zombie (cat in his lap now). He did manage to eat a little bit, an improvement over last time he had all of this stuff on one day. But that was an up-hill struggle on my part. I almost had to do the whole airplane-with-the-spoon bit you do for a kid. Thanks for the soup Mo! Just what he needed.
Now it's just radiation every day for the rest of the week until Friday. He goes to the clinic and they'll probably want to give him more blood and put him back on his neutropenic diet. We're used to the roller coaster by now. More info when something 'interesting' happens. As if every day isn't full of 'interesting' stuff already :-)
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