Saturday October 17, 2009 9:15 PM

Since John's treatment, last Monday, he was great Monday and Tuesday. Then on Wednesday (as usual the third day after the treatment) he started up with the nausea and dry heaves. He had no interest in eating and being social at all. He was dizzy when he stood and very zapped of energy, so he did a lot of sleeping.

Thursday, he got the chills and couldn't seem to get warm. He was using sweats, two blankets and a heating pad. Not to mention, I am going to have to move outside where it is cooler as he would love to have the furnace set at 80 degrees. It probably is keeping people from visiting us. He was doing a lot of coughing and was very shaky and had a hard time even holding a glass. This is when I canceled doing Costco book signings during the week and only Friday and Saturday, when Lori is around.

During the night he was running a fever and I was afraid he was coming down with something to add to his plate already. I used cold clothes to try and bring it down and called my standby nurse friend, just across the street (We have two nurse friends across the street and they never seem to sleep; it doesn't matter when things happen, they are available), she said Tylenol would not hurt for him to take and sure enough, it dropped the fever down.

So, the latest was last night. When he was in the bathroom and turned to go back to bed (at 3:00, of course) he lost his balance and fell flat on his back and hit his head on the tile floor. I about fell myself, leaping out of bed when I heard him go down, and tangling the covers in my feet and legs. He said he was not dizzy or faint, but just lost his balance. He got a bump on his head and his left shoulder was hurting today. He has lost so much weight, the shoulder blades are just bare of any padding (Maybe excess weight is good to have). He was good after that and we are going to get some handrails put up in the bathroom so he can hold on the something to keep stable.

Needless to say, we are more than anxious to get to the clinic Monday, to see how his blood count is and hopefully get another treatment.

We'll let you know Monday night. Good night.