10/9/15 (I’m back finally trying to caught up on blogging Jackson’s Journey)
Today’s Jackson’s first chemo appt. I’m a little nervous and unsure of how he’ll respond to the chemo but I have faith that we are making the right decision. Amanda (the oncologist technician) greets us and takes us into the exam room that we had our consult in and brings in a comforter and places it on the floor for Jackson to lay on. She’s such a gentle spirit with Jackson and I can tell he’s in good hands. She takes us down the hall to first get weighed, Jackson’s gained another 4lbs, yay! Then she explains the process, first she’ll take blood work to make sure all his levels are ok, then she’ll administer the anti-nausea medicine and finally she’ll take him to down the hall to administer the chemo treatment (intravenous Carboplatin). I asked to stay in the room with him while he was having his blood drawn and his anti-nausea medicine administered. After this was done we had to wait about 10-15min. while the medicine took effect, so I decided to do some Reiki to help calm his nerves and create a blanket of healing in his system. He relaxed and we waited, then Amanda came back to get him for his first treatment. I went out to the waiting room and proceeded to wait, boy did that seem forever. Then she called me back in and said everything went fine, she said he was such a cuddle bug because during his treatment she stayed with him and he just fell asleep next to her and she took a nap with him.
Success…treatment was over till the next month and we were headed home. In the proceeding day he was very lethargic and his pee stunk like chemicals (I know not pleasant but the truth), but other than that no real side effect, his appetite remained normal and he was otherwise himself. In the following 7 days and 14 days we had to go for blood work, CBC to make sure his white blood cell count didn’t drop to low (which it didn’t), our tripawd life was back to the new normal.
