This last round of chemo was really rough! We got the go ahead to go home with Odette after a short 5 day stay. This was short lived when the next morning Odette had been puking all night and was showing signs of dehydration, so we went back up to the hospital where they pumped lots of fluid in her and a few hours later managed to pee out of her diaper. (Just a note...Huggies are the absolute worst diapers I have ever used! They don't hold anything in for Odette! I am so glad that I don't buy them, but they are just given to me at the hospital, so when I use 10 a day I don't worry about it! Maybe they are better for boys, but target brand deserves 5 stars from me!) Odette has lots of sores in her mouth and down her throat and this is why she isn't eating. Kind of like bad reflux...burns going in/out. The doctors have decided that they will put the next chemo on hold for about a week so hopefully she can heal some before getting beat down again. Then we start all over again and might be another 27 day stay in the hospital. They did say that the first six months are the worst and then it does get better--or we are at least used to everything! I'm at least glad that Odette feels at home in the hospital and can get some sleep and with her families favorite cartoon character-Scooby Doo!Tuesday, July 28, 2009
At Home in the Hospital
This last round of chemo was really rough! We got the go ahead to go home with Odette after a short 5 day stay. This was short lived when the next morning Odette had been puking all night and was showing signs of dehydration, so we went back up to the hospital where they pumped lots of fluid in her and a few hours later managed to pee out of her diaper. (Just a note...Huggies are the absolute worst diapers I have ever used! They don't hold anything in for Odette! I am so glad that I don't buy them, but they are just given to me at the hospital, so when I use 10 a day I don't worry about it! Maybe they are better for boys, but target brand deserves 5 stars from me!) Odette has lots of sores in her mouth and down her throat and this is why she isn't eating. Kind of like bad reflux...burns going in/out. The doctors have decided that they will put the next chemo on hold for about a week so hopefully she can heal some before getting beat down again. Then we start all over again and might be another 27 day stay in the hospital. They did say that the first six months are the worst and then it does get better--or we are at least used to everything! I'm at least glad that Odette feels at home in the hospital and can get some sleep and with her families favorite cartoon character-Scooby Doo!
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Poor little thing! It makes me want to give her a big ice cream cone to make her sore mouth feel better! I'm guessing that's not on her list of approved foods! Mel
ReplyDeleteI totally agree on the diapers!!! huggies sucked for my girls, but we LOVED the target ones. All my nephews though, used huggies, and my sisters swore by them. I think its definetly a boy/girl thing. I hope that Odettes mouth is feeling better!!
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