Abbi is on day 8 of chemo and just a couple of days ago started having feelings of nausea and diarrea. they were able to get a stool sample and she has roto virus which they can do nothing for but hydrate her if her diarrea gets worse, but so far it is only once a day. but her tummy hurts and she only gets relief when she lays down, they have her on antibiotics for fevers just to make sure, but the antibiotics can't do anything for the virus she has to pass it on her own, as soon as she gets these stem cells it will help her blood count recover and fight things off better. she has not eaten in about 5 days so they were talking about an ng tube but she had a really bad bloody nose 2 days ago and since this tube goes up her nose they thought it was best not to, also she hates the tube, and i am glad they won't do it. so they will do iv nutrition instead. but that can be harder on her liver. so they will watch her liver counts, also Abbi was fortunate enough to be able to receive a donated I pad 2 from an organization her social workers found on the internet. has not arrived yet but hopefully tomorrow. i hope it gets her mind off feeling crappy, they do give her benadryl and morphine pretty much around the clock now it makes her tummy feel better so she can sleep. and she does not want to get out of bed except to go to the bathroom so she isn't moving around enough or breathing deep enough to clear out the junk in her lungs, i guess you can get tiny parts of lung collapse which she has had before in transplant. but it does clear up and i guess she can blow bubbles to help take deep breaths without even realizing it. we can not wait for Wednesday to come so she can get her stem cells and start to get better. well it is 4 am and i couldn't go back to sleep so i thought i would write an update. now i will try, goodnight or should i say goodmorning.
