Tuesday 10 March 2009

We made our way back to hospital today. Drew was in high spirits once we got there and everybody asked about his weekend at Camp Quality. The chemo (cyclophosphamide)was hung at 12.30pm and ran through for 6 hours before the next chemotherapy drug (Etoposide) was administered after another hour. The vomiting started around 5.00pm, Drew's anti nausea medication was increased and several new ones added. Drew eventually went to sleep around 10.00pm, but what a night. He had to be woken up to pee, his volume and ph need to be measured, then the pump wouldn't stop beeping, and it appeared there was a problem with his port, that solved. Dr Frank had to be woken up at 1.30am as Drew wasn't producing enough fluids, so he had to have extra fluids pushed through to stop him dehydrating. He also has obs taken at intervals throughout the night. At 4.30am the anti nausea medication had worn off and the poor thing had another vomit, this time the bed needed to be changed as well. After that we settled back to sleep until his blood was taken at 5.30, when there again seemed to be a problem with his port. The good thing Drew seemed to be oblivious to most of what had happened through the night.