Two hospital visits

Last week on Thursday Jan Arne's platelets were back over 100 and he received Camptosar and Erbitux and started two weeks of Xeloda.

At weekend we went to my parents' place and from there we drove to visit a friend's family who moved away from Tampere last year. They have almost same age kids as we do so us parents could just relax while kids were playing nicely by themselves. In theory.

After the visit we drove back to Tampere with Jan Arne and left the kids with my parents. The plan was to renovate their room while they are gone. Well, things don't always go as planned. The room was of course a lot more work than we thought even though we thought we were being realistic. The walls are still waiting for the first coat of paint and the old floor is there, new floor still in packages. I was supposed to go to my parents tomorrow while Jan Arne would finish the room, or as much as he would have energy for, as today was the chemo day again.

But the platelets were back under 100 again so they dropped Camptosar and gave only Erbitux, but told him to continue with Xeloda. Nice for him (less side effects, more energy for renovation) and for cancer (less poison). Except now he is back in hospital with some fever (anything above 38,5C and he has to go to hospital and he had 38,8C) and sore throat.

So I guess this is it for the blog today and off to do some painting.

(My pet peeve for today: why is it impossible to hire anyone to do the painting and the floor in this supposedly-recession-time?? I thought renovation guys didn't have enough of work. Somehow we didn't get anyone to be interested in coming here to do the room for us until August).