Thursday, 23 April 2009

Back to hospital at 8.30am today for 5 days of intensive chemotherapy. It was hectic and there was no bed for Drew, so we went to the Day Stay Unit, where Drew was accessed and his chemo started. He is having Cytarbine, over 3 hours, then Dexaroxane (Dexy) to protect his heart from his next drug Mitozantrone (Blue Loo)which starts 6 hours after the commencement of the Cytarbine. Unfortunately one of the side effects of intravenous cytarabine, apart from nausea and vomiting, is a chemotherapy conjunctivitis, to avoid this Drew has to have 4 eye drops every 4 hours. Guess who hates eye drops, so after an initial drama, Drew finally let the nurses put them in, the next couple of doses weren't too bad, but Drew wasn't keen when we had to wake him at 12.00am and 4.00am. He was also very sick in the afternoon, but they tweaked his anti nausea drugs around and he had a peaceful night, except for the eye drops.