Spinal Tap

Hello!

It's Wednesday morning, and we're halfway through this round of chemo. So far, Eric has tolerated the chemo pretty well, but the anti-nausea medicine threw him for a loop yesterday. Apparently, the common anti-nausea medicine that they give chemo patients can sometimes cause severe headaches. So they switched his meds around a bit and gave him a cocktail of benadryl and compazine. It worked wonders on the headache, but also knocked him out for 4 straight hours. :) Apparently, IU has done studies in the past on the best way to treat headaches in the ER, and stumbled upon this cocktail. It was kind of interesting. Just to be on the safe side, the doctors ordered an MRI yesterday. This is to eliminate some of the scarier causes of headaches. They don't expect to find anything, though.

After he got back from the MRI, we watched Sherlock Holmes and did a few laps around the cancer floor. Apparently, we had to get a doctors order to leave the floor, which we got this morning. So as long as he's feeling up to it, we can venture out to the rest of the hospital and step outside a bit to get some fresh air. His chemo is ordered for 1 pm today, and he'll get his spinal tap chemo sometime between now and then.

Until later,
Melissa