Mouth sores

Once the crampy abdomen started resolving, the mouth sores came with a vengence.  It was so terrible he could hardly open his mouth.  It was another week of a liquid diet, smoothies and popsicles and oragel to help numb the mouth. 

The only good thing to come out of it was that on Monday after his routine blood work, we found out that he had reached his nadir.  He was at the lowest for his white blood cell count, below 500 (normal between 4-10,000).  This meant that the chemo was working... but also meant that his immune system was hanging on by a thread.  He wanted to continue to work and I was angry about it.  He could pick up any bug imaginable!  He promised me he would go to work and not attend meetings unless he could call in to the meeting.  By Thursday his blood count had gone up to a normal range and I could stop giving him the neupogen shots.  He had been having them for 8 days straight, but they did their work and elevated the white count.

On Thursday he called and said he ate a Big Mac for lunch!  I knew he was 'on the mend'!!  This weekend has been a good weekend, and he has felt pretty good, even doing projects around the house.

Next Friday begins a new round of chemo for him, round 4 of six.

We will enjoy these great days this week and hope that this next round won't make him too miserable and the worst is behind him.