Round Four

Wednesday July 28

Today was Round 4 and things didn't go as smoothly as we would have liked. Cody's port was not cooperating with the nurses very well. He had been having some pain in that area for the past week which he thought was cause he had been working extra hard this week. He had put 70 hrs in at work and then would come home and put our side yard in. Which for most of you know its about as big as a back yard. He has been feeling so good I think he forgot he is suppose to take things easy. Well anyways his port was letting them access it it just wasn't producing blood back which made them a little worried that it wasn't in the right spot. So after a minute Cody started to freak out he wont say that but you could see it all over his face. They think his body is trying to reject the port and is trying to push it out. if this is the case we will have to remove the port and try it on the other side and then he will have to take a medication so his body wont reject it. So for today they needed to try a different blood thinner to see if maybe he had a clot on the end of the valve. 45 minutes later and it began to work.

Cody was quit relieved that he didn't have to get an IV in his arm instead of using his port.

This had been a very long day not just for us but the poor nurses. There was problems going on with almost every patient that walked through that door. I felt so bad for them they just looked exhausted.

After all it was a good day for us. We got some of Cody's blood work back and things are looking good. His tumor count was at 200 when we all began this journey and today its down to 140. So he has dropped 60 counts in the last 3 treatments. We are very excited about this result. We are set up for another CT on the 9Th of August right before round 5.