Hi!! In order to help all of you understand what we know when we know and to cut down on miscommunication we have created a blog to keep everyone updated! It becomes a bit exhausting to repeat everything for each person. So here you go:
1. She just finished her first day of chemo! They just put the meds right in an IV and she can sleep/eat/do everything normally. The side effects will probably begin tomorrow or Wednesday.
2. She will be staying in the hospital for about 3 days so doctors can monitor her first chemo treatment. The reason they are doing this is because after checking her LDH blood levels today, they found that her levels went up quite a bit. The reason for this is that the medicine she was taking this weekend already began to kill some of the lymphoma. The dead cells then are toxins to the body. Since the lymphoma is already dying so quickly, they are expecting it to do the same when chemo begins. So in order to make sure these toxins do not hurt her, they will be monitoring her in the hospital. This is a good thing because the doctors will make sure she is not having any bad reactions and can also provide drugs for the chemo side effects.
Please continue to say prayers for her!! We need lots of support, cheerfulness, and optimism. The nurse told us her only advice is that "attitude is everything, and people with good attitudes are the ones who make it through!" So please please be optimistic!!
