Day 2 On Cycle #2
Posted 2 hours ago
Travyn had a really good night considering he recieved Chemo. He woke up this morning and threw up a little. They gave him some Ativan to help with the nausea and he has been fine all day. He has been playing and giggling and we are lovin every minute of it. :DThey gave Travyn 2 different kinds of Chemo yesterday. The first one was Vincristine which is pushed into his central line quickly and the 2nd one is called Methotrexate that runs over a 4 hr drip. He received both of these on his first cycle. The one thing I forgot to mention in last update is that the decrease this cycle by 10%. They are thinking since he got an infection last time they can decrease the chemo this cycle and be ok. Which to me is great!!The Methotrexate is the scary one. It causes mouth sores and they can go all the way through his G-I Tract. Last time Travyn got the sores really bad in his mouth and got a really bad diaper rash. This is called "Mucotitis" The crazy thing is that right when it gets in his body they want it out as soon as possible. I guess it's that potient to do the job that quick...WOW!!!! somthing that I learned from one of my favorite nurses is, a long time ago they use to inject the chemo into a vein in the arm. Well, this girl came in to receive her Chemo and when they were injecting here arm with Chemo the needle went through the vein and they pushed the Chemo into the tissue of her arm. Well today that arm has very little movement. The Chemo killed the tissue and the muscles. and thats why they place the Central Line thats goes in his chest and the thread it up to his Juguler and from his Juguler they thread it down to his heart so when they give these kids Chemo it goes strait in the vein. Research has shown that Chemo cant hurt the veins. Im not trying to scare you guys that story happened a long time ago. It just shows you how powerful Chemo is.Tomorrow Travyn will recieve his 2nd dose of Chemo. Which will be VP-16 amd Cyclophosphamide. If I remember correctly the Cyclophosamide is very damaging to the bladder so they will give him a Rescue medicine called Mesna. The Mesna coats the bladder so it can protect it from bleeding. They will watch his urine output very closly to make sure he doesn't pee blood. As for now, our Fighter is doing fantastic. He is still Mr. Puff from all the fluids. Its so darn cute!! I will keep on updating you on his progress. My sweet baby boy is sleeping right now so I better get ready for some Physical Therapy for when he wakes up. Thanks for all your uplifting messages. I look forward to reading them.....

About St. Baldricks, It was so much fun! About 20 people shaved there heads. Even 5 women did. one was a 15 year old Cheerleader. WOW, talk about guts!! I think its so great. I got alot of pictures. Jayson took his camera back to Ceadr City yesterday but I will get them on Friday and post them. You guys are gonna love them. They had a car that was donated by ACME and they wrote all over it "CANCER SUCKS" and we took turns hitting it with a sledge hammer. It was a blast!!!
THANKS FOR YOU LOVE AND SUPPORT EVERYONE!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!!PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR MY SWEET BABY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR YOU!!! XOXO