11/26/10

Jeremie was given several units of platelets today. And a whole lot of Dilaudid. He had the lumbar puncture today as well. Said it HURT horribly. The worse one ever! His neutrophils are at 300! Woo Hoo!!! On paper the man looks amazing. Just not in real life :-(

He is very drugged. I don't love that. Snowing people makes me sad. So I asked him if he could slow down a bit on the I.V. pain meds a bit. He is going to accommodate my wishes ;-)

A lot of the pain is coming from his poor throat. Which he says  Dilaudid takes it away instantly. But leaves him incoherent. He has a mouth wash, that has lidocaine in it. But he doesn't love it. We got behind on the Noxifill when he was in Salt Lake for induction. It is a great anti fungal. He doesn't have an immune system to fight fungal infections at the moment. Hopefully taking his medication regularly, doing perfect mouth care, and having his immune system come back will help quickly.

The immune system is amazing, and when it isn't working...uh...just yucky.

I'm pretty much torturing the kids today. Making them clean  up their gross rooms and helping clean up the house. I went to the laundry mat and washed all the bedding in the house. Scrubbed my room down. And have it ready for him to come home :-) Have I said I like having him close by. This rocks. I truly can do everything I need to do :-)

Thanksgiving was nice. Just terribly sad without my buddy :-( Food was good. Went home and crashed! Kids did a cute little Thanksgiving skit. It made me laugh so hard! They did a great job, given that they wrote, practiced and did the play within 3 hours. They had fun hanging with their cousins.

Praying that Jeremie doesn't have any complications related to the lumbar puncture this time. Praying that his neutrophils continue to increase, and that he will get to come home tomorrow. Praying that his pain will leave him, and he can focus on gaining strength. Oh please, oh please, oh please...