Just plain tired... Day 178 09MAY09

Joshua has been just plain tired today. The chemo is really wearing him out this time. His sense of smell has also been affected, nothing seems to smell right to him. It is making the task of finding food he will eat just that much more difficult. Luckily his stomach has been mostly okay. We are controlling the nausea with Zofran so far and it has been working. As long as we can keep getting liquids and food going into him.

Joshua spent most of the day cuddling with Renee or just moping around on the couch. His spurts of usable energy today were very short lived. We did have a fun time out on the deck this evening catching lizards. Joshua has always loved catching them and getting them to crawl on his arm or head. I actually caught Fred, that was the lizard we played with tonight, for Josh. His reflexes just are not fast enough right now to catch them on his own. So, he finds them, points them out and I grab them. Most of the time. My reflexes aren't what they used to be either;)

Tomorrow will be the last day of rest for Josh before his next round of chemo on Monday and then again on Wednesday. He has been on Dexamethesone, a steroid, for almost a week but we haven't really noticed much of a difference in his appetite or his mood. So far way better than the Prednisone cycle we did several months back.

The plan for the rest of the weekend is rest for Joshua. We are trying to get his strength built back up for the next round. I am really anxious to see what his CBC results are on Monday. All of the drugs he is taking this round can suppress his counts. Hopefully they have stayed over 500.