26 March 2011 Third Chemo Hits like Bricks

My sweet boy is in the hospital today. Four days post-third-chemo and he is in deep trouble. As before, he's anorexic, but this time, after a single meal on Wednesday, he refused to eat. I pushed some food down him, but even though he was still pretty chipper in terms of mood -- food was OFF the menu. By yesterday, he was pooing light brown water, eating nothing and by evening was spitting up bile (thought he might be vomiting, but the vet now says he wasn't).

So he had to stay overnight (nice Dr. Mullins snuggled with him most of the night -- what a STAR). They've given him IV fluids and a catheter. They've also provided a spectrum of anti-nausea and acid reducing medication, but he still wasn't having any of the food thing. They tried him early this morning with baby food (?!) and he evidently lapped it right up. However, it was only a very little bit. They are concerned about the "spitting up" of bile and though he hasn't had diarrhea for them, they are concerned about that as well. So he's spending the day under observation. They want to take an x-ray to rule out "Megaesophagus" where the esophagus is enlarged and food fails to make it to the tummy. The major symptom of this is regurgitation instead of actual vomiting (which is what he's doing). So today x-ray, observation and lots of good thoughts for my sweet boy ...