February 17, 2012

the view was better today :)

so today they are starting chemo finally. she is still retaining a lot of fluid and will eventually hopefully pass all that, but they wanted to get her started on the chemo to get the drugs to start to fight the tumor.

They hooked her up about 12 noon and the first 1.25 hours were good. she slept.

 but then she woke up very uncomfortable and had trouble breathing, so they had to have her sit up and getting a breathing mask to help her catch her breath.

then after about 45 minutes she was able to get back into bed and they gave her some drugs to help her sleep :)

then time for more chemo.

and a few more tests. Kidney doctor should be by eventually to see how things are going with the fluid.  she had an xray and they are monitoring the liquid she is retaining. they are hoping the chemo drugs will help fight the tumor and once the tumor starts to shrink her kidneys will work faster to flush everything out.

here are a few more photos from the day of chemo....