I didn't get a chance to post an evening update last night so here we go a couple hours late. Dad got a couple bags of platelets yesterday in preparation for his spinal tap. This is the second one he's had with many more to come. They take out a small quantity of fluid and replace it with a drug. The first one was Methatrexate and this one was Ara-C. He came through the procedure just fine. He's also completely off the I.V. fluids. He is starting to experience some chemotherapy side effects - food isn't tasting all that great, little bit of nausea and some bouts of the sleepies. Overall the doctors out there are pleased with how he is handling this first phase of the Hyper CVAD.
I mentioned in an earlier post that dad needs to stay close to Iowa City between the first two rounds of chemotherapy. Michael and his wife Chris (Mom's brother's middle son, our cousin) live in Iowa City and have volunteered the use of their basement so that Mom and Dad can have a place to stay from this Saturday (potentially) until around the 27th of May when he goes back to the same unit at the hospital for Course B of his treatment. A very big THANK YOU goes out to the two of them for doing this.
Ed
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