Friday 5th February 2010

Well what a wonderful sleep Luke and I had last night. 7.5 hours straight without interuption from the nurses. :) We both woke up at 7am and looked at each other and asked if either of us had been woken up by the nurse but it would appear we were both comatosed.

He woke up feeling good. Breakfast hadn't arrived yet and he asked for toast so I went and made some for him. He got through 1 piece and then got given his daily dose of maxolon - which is an anti nausea drug. Straight away he started feeling nauseous!
So the doctors have now decided to change drugs for nausea.
After breakfast he got all dopey again and ended up sleeping on and off for the morning.

Amy called from school with a headache that she'd had from last night. So Murray went and got her and brought her in (after checking her temperature to make sure she wasn't that sick!) Murray also picked up the families new phones. I'll shortly send out a group email with the details and you will find the new numbers listed on the side of this blog under contact details.
The phones caused a welcome distraction for everyone and Luke sat setting up his ring tone etc. while we ducked out for lunch.

All day the nurse had been threatening Luke with a sponge bath if he didn't get up and have a shower so she set a deadline of 3pm. Cutting it quite fine he finally had his shower at 3.30pm.

At around 5pm Luke had his "bee sting" injection in the butt. He had a nice nurse doing it this time and she was a lot slower injecting the chemo. He did still rate this at about 10 (instead of 20) on the pain scale and the pain lasted for about an hour.

His blood counts were really good today
Haemaglobin 91 / White Cell Count 1.0 / Platelets 32 / Neutrophils 0.74

He has continued to lose weight - currently down to 78.3kg.

Support still continues to come in from everyone. Thank you.
Something I could suggest for those interested is to go and donate blood. :)
I did not realise how many blood products Luke would/will need. However going through this process makes you realise how precious blood is, especially the platelets. Luke has already had about 5 bags of platelets.
For anyone interested Luke's blood type is A Rh D Negative. I've just looked on the Red Cross site and it shows that only 7% of Australians have this blood type. Amy and I are also this blood type. Obviously Luke would not receive your blood directly however it would save so many other lives.