I was Chris' wife/caregiver & this is the medical blog I wrote during his treatment. Short history: dx in July 2010, no initial bone marrow involvement, did 5 rounds hyper-cvad protocol. Found out he is in relapse/refractory status with involvement in his chest, spleen, inguinal & throat lymph nodes, bone marrow, spine & brain in January 2011 when we went to MD Anderson for treatment. The two different rounds of chemo Chris got at MDA could not put him in remission; he died of leukemia/lymphoma on March 18th, 2011, an astonishing and horrific 8 months after his diagnosis.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Round 4 of chemo starting tonight

Chris' doctor came by earlier and so did Chris' chemo nurse.  He'll be starting chemo up in the next hour or so, they just started his anti-nausea meds.  He'll have chemo until Sunday night or later depending upon how things go.  He will get out by Wednesday at the latest, hopefully.

There was some confusion with his orders for having his home meds continued, like his pain meds, so it took way too long to get him pain meds.  He is really sore from his surgery.
I contacted his oncologists nurse and cleared up the home meds confusion but it still took forever for his nurse or the pharmacy to get the meds ordered.  

It's nearing shift change so hopefully his next nurse won't be so busy.  

He's eating dinner and not too long ago some of his friends(Mel, Rhiannon, & Paul) came to visit, it's good to be where he has people visit.  Our awesome friend Sandra was the only one who came to see him when we lived in Wichita.  

We're slowly getting used to things here and we'll have plenty of time to do so.  

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