Friday, 5 June 2009

Drew has coped well with the eye drops so far and as his chemo doesn't start until this afternoon and his counts are ok, he actually went to the school room for a few hours, another first!!! The drugs Drew is having this time are fludarabine (chemotherapy), doxaroxane (protects his heart), idarubacine (chemotherapy, can affect heart) and lastly cytarabine, which runs four hours after the first drug starts and runs over four hours. I asked to have all his sickness medication charted before he began the chemotherapy this time and he has been well dosed up and had no nausea which is good. He has only been sick once, and that was because one of the anti-nausea drugs, if administered too quickly makes you vomit instantly, which is a bit bizarre, but he was fine after that.