Round 2; day 4:

Fred is very tired, queasy, and his muscles are achy.  He received his Neulasta injection this morning.  He has been running a low grade temperature, but nothing Tylenol won't help. 

Tomorrow is his nebulizer treatment and then we can head home. 

Hopefully the rest of the day will be uneventful.

Round 2, day 3 done.  Fred received the same cocktail as yesterday.  Yesterday he felt good after his treatment, but today not so.  He is very tired, which I keep telling him the drugs build up in his system over the 3 days which makes him feel worse as the days go on.

He is sleeping now and we will monitor his temperature throughout the day.  Tomorrow is his Neulasta injection and Friday is a new treatment, a nebulizer treatment, since he is allergic to Bactrim.

Round 2, day 2:

Today was only the fludarbine and cytoxin.  Took 2 hours.  Fred was feeling good afterwards and wanted to go have lunch so we went to the Town Center and walk a little then had lunch at The Cheesecake Factory.  Towards the end he just started to fade.  He has been sleeping since we returned to the hotel (4 hours ago). 

Good day!

Round 2, day 1....a very long day.

The day started with blood work at 7:45 am
Red blood count: 2.81 (normal 4.32-5.72)
White blood count: 3.4 (normal 3.5-10.5)
Hemoglobin: 10.1 (normal 13.5-17.5)
Hemocrit: 30.1 (normal 38.8-50.0)
Platelets: 97 (normal 150-450)
Absolute lymphocytes 1.0 (normal 0.9-2.9)

Overall, not too bad. 

Doctor at 9:30 am, then chemo at 10:30 am. 
This time around Fred received Rituxan (which took 4 hours to run), than Fludarabine and finally Cytoxin.  Got out of chemo at 5:00 pm.  As I said a very long day.  Fred slept through most of it and woke up around 4:15 pm.  Then he was very "chatty". 

He is resting now and we start again tomorrow at 8:30 am. 

Thanks for all the prayers, it means so much to us.

Sorry it has been a while since I posted, but after being off work for a week, I was backed up at work and too tired when I got home to do any posting.

Last weekend was rough for Fred.  Between throwing up and high temperatures he really did not feel well at all.  Late last Saturday his temperature got to 100.5 (we have to call Mayo if his temperature gets to 100.4).  I called Mayo and they had him start his antibiotic Levaquin which he promptly threw up after taking.  We waited about 1/2 hour and his temperature got to 100.9 so Fred took another Levaquin an hour and a half later since we figured he threw up after taking the first one that it did not get into his system.  Two hours later his temperature was down to 98.9.  Sunday we watched his temperature closely and between Tylenol and another Levaquin it did not get over 99.0.

Tuesday afternoon Fred finally started feeling better.  On Tuesday he had a CBC done at our doctor here.  Here are the results:

White blood count: 1.9 (low, which is normal after chemo) Normal is between 4.5 - 10.5
Red blood count:  2.26 (low) Normal 4.00-6.00
Platelets: 83 (low) 150 - 450
Hemoglobin:  8.3 (low) Normal 11.0 - 18.0

The CBC was faxed to Dr. Solberg at Mayo.  He was fine with the results, perfectly normal after chemo.  His resistance is low, which means crowds are a definite NO.  He is feeling better cause he is not liking "house arrest" as he calls it.

His temperature during the rest of the week has been good, but we must monitor it at least 3 - 4 times a day.

Fred went for a walk this morning and realized he does not have the energy to walk very far.  At least he got outside.