September 22: Mom checked in to St. Mary’s hospital yesterday so she can get continuous infusion of iv fluids to help her body recuperate from the nasty chemo side-effects. She’s been feeling side-effects for the last week, but in the past several days the nausea didn’t allow her to keep down any nutrition. Early in the week she went into the clinic to get fluids, and they stopped her continuous infusion of the 5-FU chemo drug that she’s been on since Aug. 23.
She did radiation on Monday (and I think on Tuesday), but then on Wednesday she was just feeling so bad that they decided she’s be best off in the hospital for a few days.
The doctor said that she’d made it further on this treatment than anyone else who he had treated had, so that just goes to show how nasty these drugs are on a person’s system. She’s going to be sleeping lots and regaining her health over the next couple days. I’m out of town until Monday, but I’ll put up another update then. Mom is still in good spirits, and I don’t think there’s anything she really needs right now except to rest and get those drugs flushed out of her system. Let’s hope the 5-FU was as nasty to the tumor as it has been the rest of her systems!
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia