Si – SPLAT! – in

So after I wrote yesterday’s post, Jake’s nausea played a little cat and mouse. There is something called break-through nausea. As soon as you think you have it under control, some of these chemo drugs break through the nausea meds and rear their ugly head. Jake had a bit of a rough day yesterday and because of it, he didn’t eat much. But as soon as we worked out his meds and he felt better later at night, he decided he was hungry… for a McD’s cheese burger… so Daddy brought not only one, but two! His thinking was that he could have one now

and one later since he hadn’t eaten all day. Jake ate his first one, no problem. He was happy, feeling good, tummy was in good shape, so a little later, he decided he wanted the other one. And he actually ate it… ALL. We were doing great since we knew we had licked the nausea bug and won. So we settled in for a nice night of shut-eye. Then IT STRUCK! With a vengeance. Poor Jake… he didn’t have time to know what was going on. It would just hit and there was nothing he could do. So this morning, our room was a stinky, HUGE, puke smell! In the wee hours of the morning I was cleaning everything, showering, tying off garbage bags so we could contain the smell of dirty clothes (that had been washed out in the tub but still wreaked). The kind of odor that when our nurses did their shift change and walked in the door, you could see it their stomaches heave as they made “that” face. Poor girls. So we woke up and started the trek back and forth between floors with dirty laundry. I still smell it, although others say they can’t. But now we know… the Cisplatin (si-SPLAT-in) as I referenced yesterday, can NOT be out run. It comes like a thief in the night and it got us! The GOOD NEWS… We got Jake’s nausea managed today… we think! It’s taking three different nausea meds staggered throughout the day, but so far it’s working, he’s eating, and he’s in good spirits. Hopefully