Bone Marrow Chemo...Round One
Sarah started her first round of chemo with the bone marrow team today. She has two days of chemo, two days of rest, then she gets her stem cells back to help her recover.
One of the chemo's she gets is excreted through the skin, so there are lots of precautions to prevent chemical burns. She can't have the dressing on over her central line...that is the thing that scares me the most! (A central line is a catheter placed into a large vein in Sarah's chest). We had to have extra help holding Sarah down while we removed the dressing because she kept trying to pull it out. The nurse made a nice wrap to go around it, but it will have to be changed multiple times a day which leaves the line vulnerable to being pulled out again. She has to have baths three to four times a day until the chemo is out of her system. Her clothes and blankets have to be washed each time she gets a bath. It's a pretty intense chemo....but that's just what these stubborn cancer cells need!
She has adjusted really well to being back at the hospital. When we were here for previous rounds she loved wandering the halls and making friends, but she can't leave her room during the stem cell transplant rounds. She's asked to leave a couple of times. I told her we couldn't leave the room, but we can look out the window and that made her happy. She had fun knocking on the window and waving to all her nurse friends. She is a trooper!!
We can't thank you enough for all your prayers...they are getting us through this! We know the power of prayer and the priesthood is real. We feel angels all around us. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
One of the chemo's she gets is excreted through the skin, so there are lots of precautions to prevent chemical burns. She can't have the dressing on over her central line...that is the thing that scares me the most! (A central line is a catheter placed into a large vein in Sarah's chest). We had to have extra help holding Sarah down while we removed the dressing because she kept trying to pull it out. The nurse made a nice wrap to go around it, but it will have to be changed multiple times a day which leaves the line vulnerable to being pulled out again. She has to have baths three to four times a day until the chemo is out of her system. Her clothes and blankets have to be washed each time she gets a bath. It's a pretty intense chemo....but that's just what these stubborn cancer cells need!
She has adjusted really well to being back at the hospital. When we were here for previous rounds she loved wandering the halls and making friends, but she can't leave her room during the stem cell transplant rounds. She's asked to leave a couple of times. I told her we couldn't leave the room, but we can look out the window and that made her happy. She had fun knocking on the window and waving to all her nurse friends. She is a trooper!!
We can't thank you enough for all your prayers...they are getting us through this! We know the power of prayer and the priesthood is real. We feel angels all around us. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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