November 21, 2010
Josie is HOME! On
Friday the Oncologist for this week came in and said she didn’t see any reason
that Josie couldn’t go home for a little while.
Even though she is on chemotherapy right now, these particular drugs are
not the ones that will drop her blood counts.
News to us…but good news! Josie’s
reflux has also improved greatly since the last time I posted – we know without
a doubt that this is due to God answering our (and your) prayers on behalf of
this issue. The 11-12 refluxes in an
hour was pretty exhausting – for Josie and for us. Along with these improvements, the doctor
noted that Josie was not needing as much of the nurses care any longer – they
were giving her medicine and other basic care, but the rest of the care came from
me and Marc. The Occupational, Physical
and Speech therapists have showed us how do much of Josie’s therapy and felt
they didn’t need to come see Josie as much since we were working with her so
well. I think we both should have new degrees
once we get through all of this!
Josie will need to go back to the hospital on November 30th
for a different chemo drug in this cycle.
This particular drug is the one in this cycle that will possibly drop
her blood counts, so she will need to stay for a couple of weeks (so they say)
to be watched in case her counts do go down.
Once we arrived home yesterday and unloaded our bags of
stuff that we accumulated over the past month, our house looked like it had
been trashed! In order to not have more
chaos, Marc’s parents took the girls for the rest of the weekend – this took a
bit of the stress level away. Thankfully
we had thought a little ahead of time and bought a 7 drawer storage bin
yesterday morning. The bin seemed huge
when I brought it into the house, but we filled it completely with all of
Josie’s supplies for her 9 day stay at home!
We are administering two of Josie’s chemotherapy drugs,
giving her a plethora of other medications (see picture that Marc posted today)
and we have to flush her broviac central line every day. We gave medications to Josie previously, but
this time it is elevated to a whole new level.
Administering the chemo is a bit nerve racking, especially the first
time, but we did it and are more than willing to do it since it means she can
be home with us!
We continue to be amazed by how quickly things can change
for Josie and we are extremely pleased to have Josie home even for a short time. This Thanksgiving will truly be a thankful
time for our family this year.
Blessings,
Marc & Darcia
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