After each round of big chemo, Sam comes home from the hospital with fluids. For five nights, he is hooked up to an IV bag and his system is flushed and hydrated with a 10 hour drip. This process flushes out his kidneys, hopefully reducing the amount of damage to them from the heavy doses of chemo drugs he received during “Big Chemo.” (That’s what we call our first day of each round when we stay overnight in the hospital and Sam receives a chemo cocktail of three drugs.) When Sam comes home from the hospital, his port needle and line have already been accessed. All we need to do is hook him up to his IV at night before he goes to bed. Setting up the pump, priming the pump, flushing his line and giving him a dose of heparin are all tasks done by Dr. Daddy. For some reason, I have been dismissed from this job, unless of course, Daddy is out of town and I am the only option. Only Dr. Daddy is allowed to do fluids. I have been kicked to the curb. :)
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Picture of some of Sam’s fluid supplies. Looks like he only had two days left in this picture! Did I mention that he strongly dislikes receiving fluids? Receiving fluids means having to have his port accessed, and we all know what a big fan he is of having his port needle in his chest! It also means using the restroom a lot! But we keep telling him, ” this is your LAST one! “
“It’s not how much you do, but how much love you put into what you are doing.”
-Mother Teresa
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