8/22/2017 Day +12 (Also day after last chemo treatment)

My honey’s chemo treatment made his mouth sores worse as expected. He could only get two Ensures down and not much water today. Even that was a struggle for him. He hasn’t needed much pain medicine till now. It is helping to keep him a little more comfortable and continue to try to swallow.  Once his white blood count starts going up those mouth sore will heal up. Pray!  Also his hair is falling out again. For a guy that doesn’t have any hair he sure is covered in them. 

I went to a class today to learn how to care for his Central Venous Catheter or CVC line. I love learning this kind of stuff! The other part of the class was a little more scary, in that, they talked about the side effects of chemo, that we know of course. They also talked about “Graft vs Host Disease”.  It can be acute (sudden) or chronic (long term). It can effect the skin, the GI tract, the liver, the lungs or the eyes! Of course there are medicines my honey takes now to help with GVHD and some he may need in the future. My Superman!

Oh! My honey had to start using his “Chopstick” again! 😂