The effects of radiation and chemotherapy are accumulating with a huge increase in fatigue and some increase in nausea. Steve is too tired to do much now. He naps often during the day and goes to bed early at night. He finds it an effort to sit at his desk to use the computer and stopped driving the boys to school in the morning this week. He was too tired to attend Nathan's choir concert last week. Adam's play is this weekend and Terry has a ticket for Steve but he doesn't feel well enough to go, even to the four o'clock matinee. He did walk ten minutes on the treadmill today, but that was all, aside from going to radiation, that is.
Steve's weight continues to drop. He lost seven pounds last week, down forty-four pounds from the start. His nausea continues, even with Prilosec, Zofran and Compazine he has had dry heaves every other day lately. Obviously he's not eating much and constipation is a problem. Terry says he has skinny little stick legs but still has his belly.
Too tired to eat. How does that happen?
Seven days left of radiation, only a week and a half. The chemo will end shortly thereafter based on what Dr. Hu says that last day, March 23rd. They are counting the days.
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