CHEMO ROUND TWO CYCLE TWO

Four rounds down, eight more to go!  We are only one third of the way finished.

Taylor was insistent that we take Jessica (his nurse on his first chemo visit) some ice cream that he had promised her. (She had made him a guarantee that he wouldn't throw up on the way home that day. She told him if he didn't, that he owed her some mint chocolate chip ice cream. ) Each time we have gone back, we have meant to pick some up and I have forgotten. Today Taylor and I had both remembered.

Upon arriving at the clinic, he sought her out and gave it to her. It made him so happy and made them both smile.

It amazes me that each time we go to the oncology clinic each nurse that has ever helped care for Taylor, seek him out, call him by name and genuinely want to know how he is doing.

Our appointment seemed to go really slow at first. The doctors and nurses were taking their sweet time getting things going. Some of the things we found out today - Taylor gained 5 pounds this week. He will have a PET scan before his next chemo appointment to determine how the cancer is reacting to the chemo.  Because of his low numbers on his second week following chemo the first cycle, they will wait three weeks in between each cycle.

By the time we moved to the infusion room Taylor was starving. He ordered and ate all of the following: fries and fry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, chicken sandwich, bean burrito, Oreo

shake and macaroni and cheese. Seriously!

This morning his teacher asked what he did while having chemo. My answer was - EAT!

Once we got moving, things went really quickly. We were out of there in record time. He was nauseous and  tired tonight.  More tired than anything.  But he keeps fighting!