Hospital Days
hello all, Briana reporting in for blogging duty. It has been a long 9 days in our world. Derek checked in to the UW hospital last thursday for regularly scheduled dose of cyterabine (the "marrow-crusher") that Derek has previously described. All went as planned in that stay and Derek was released on Saturday. Battling some nausea, we managed to make it out to the wedding of Jeff and Kaitlan, two very good family friends of the Buchner Huhman family. However starting in the middle of Saturday night, D started having extreme stomach pain. Eventually it became clear that we would need to go the hospital as meds on hand weren't helping. So we checked in to the ER, and long story short have been here ever since (well, I have come and gone quite a bit, but Derek has not). It seems like one thing always leads to another with this type of treatment - the chemo drugs cause a whole host of side effects, which all have their own potential rippling effects. So my understanding is