So today we are back at the treatment room for another round of maintenance work. Cody of course was not such a great patient for them today. His port was acting up again and not letting them draw any blood from it no matter what they tried. This worried the nurses since not even a drop was coming. This could mean so many different things. For starter they wondered if the valve had shifted inside and not in proper place, or the valve was completely detached or it just had a blood clot on the end. The only way we were able to see what was going on was to head down to radiology and have them shoot his port with a certain fluid and see where it went with an ex-ray. Cody was extremely nervous. They came in telling us all the worse case sinerials first. They talked about maybe having to remove his port and switching sides or having to go in through the groin and stripping the valve. Neither are good this early in his treatments. Once they remove it and switch to the other side that's your last chance for a port.
As you can see Cody is not thinking this is very fun at all. He would hardly talk to me he was quit scared of what they would find.
Well everything came back looking good. It seamed to be a few small lesions on the end of the valve acting like a trap door. It was letting fluids in, but would shut as soon as you would try and draw any out. They injected a blood thinner and wa la it began to work very well. So back to treatment we will go.
Our dear friends Stacy and her mom Vicky came to visit us. Stacy graduated from chemo 2 weeks ago from being treated for breast cancer. They are so dang cute. They told us as long as we are there they will be coming to visit during our treatments. We couldn't ask for any better two people. They have just become part of our family.
So Friday when we went back to get Cody's pump taken off we were told that the Dr. wanted to see us. Cody's tumor count has dramatically spiked again. Even though we had a great CT scan 4 weeks ago his tumor count was still going up. It has gone from a 3.3 to a 8.7. The Dr. felt like we needed to do another Pet Scan to get a better look at the entire body.
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