And it's.... a hospital trip for a change

It hasn't gone quite the way we thought it would go this week.

Jan Arne got the dose of Gemzar and Vectibix last Thursday. We thought the side effects of Gemzar weren't supposed to be bad but on Saturday he started to feel very sleepy and weak. He didn't have fever so I figured it was just fatigue which is a common side effect from Gemzar. The problem was that the fatigue was Just So Bad, and he had no appetite either. He slept most of Saturday. And Sunday. And yesterday. Except in the evening he took the older kid to football practise, and today to play a game (they won 2-0, yippee :) I felt bad that Jan Arne had to go but I had something else both evenings and he said he is tired but ok, except today he had a sore throat in the morning.

The problem with having a cancer patient and two young kids in the family is that the kids keep you busy until they go to bed (even with my parents helping), and only then you can really pay attention to the cancer patient. Good luck he paid attention to himself and took his temperature. It was 38.7 C so I took a look at his throat and it looked like it could be infected (no I have not started my medical studies yet but maybe I should). I phoned the cancer ward and they said he should get to the hospital. Unfortunately the doctor had just gone home 15 minutes earlier, otherwise he could have taken a look at Jan Arne. Instead he had to go to the first aid once again and it's not the nicest place as the service can sometimes be quite slow. He went there two hours ago and had just now had his blood test taken, and it's 23:30 (11.30 pm).

Sigh. Well at least he got some kind of a bed to lie in in there but hopefully they will take him to the cancer ward soon so he can get some proper rest (in a hospital bed?? Yea right). But better to be safe than sorry if it is a throat infection as we don't know how his blood values are after Gemzar and if he manages to battle the infection. But now we don't know if he's been tired because of the chemo or because of a flu.

To be continued.