Sutent: Week 3

Tonight I miss IL-2.

And that is saying something!

Sutent is hard.

From what we know over the 4 weeks of

this drug side effects get worse and worse.

And then you get 2 weeks off before beginning another dose.

And when you start another round...

they get worse and worse again.

And so on.

I've had mixed feelings about how to answer the question

"How is Trav doing?'

Because it all depends on the day.

I hold my breath each morning and wait to see how he feels.

Some days he feels pretty terrible.

(Mostly stomach issues, heat rash, and fatigue).

And some days he does pretty well.

I wouldn't say he ever feels great,

but for the past few days he's done great

and we thought we had a good thing going.

Till today.

Today has been extremely rough.

Trav woke up feeling sick,

and it's gotten progressively worse as the days gone one.

He is extremely nauseas and hasn't been able to eat,

or hold anything down.

He has some pretty awful stomach issues.

And he's been really fevered all day long.

I miss IL-2 because at least when he was feeling so sick,

we were in the ICU where they were monitoring everything.

Here I worry that something could be really wrong,

and we are ignorant of what it is.

I'm a worry wort.

It's in my blood.

(I wonder if that's spelled correctly?) 

And we should still have one week to go before he gets a break.

I'm praying today is just a bad day,

and that tomorrow he will feel  a little better...

Feel free to join me.

I really, really hate seeing him so sick.

Love to all.