Brendon has been feeling much better. He returned to school Tuesday and was a little nervous, but he did great. His counts were good enough for him to get his chemo on Thursday. He went to Maine Medical Center around 10:20am for his spinal dose of chemo. They accessed his port with no problems (which was a relief because Bren has had lots of issues with people trying to access his port) and started him on iv fluids right away. They put him to sleep, he got his medicine and woke up very hungry and really silly. He kept making all kinds of jokes. After the hospital we had to go to the clinic for him to get 2 other types of chemo. We were there for about an hour. We received some very good news while at the clinic.. Brendon has another spinal chemo next Thursday and that is his final one for the rest of his treatment. He was pretty excited to hear that! He will not have to go to the clinic after his spinal on 11/1 and he will be done chemo on 11/8. He will not have to go back to the clinic until 11/28. He will officially be in maintenance which means clinic visits once a month and that's it! No scans, medical procedures or anything like that! Just routine chemotherapy. If he is feeling sick or if we have any concerns we can call and they will see him, but that's only as needed. We are all very excited! After the clinic we came home and Bren was feeling pretty good. He woke up the next morning and had a very upset stomach. He is still feeling achy and nauseous and just not himself, but we're hoping he'll be better soon. The nausea hits him on and off most of the day. The medicine helps, which is good. His headaches have not been back up until today. He complained about it a little but the pain pills took care of them. We will keep an eye on the headaches to make sure they don't continue. His port is still accessed because he's on the 4 days in a row cycle of chemo (which is given at home by Critical Care). He will be de-accessed tomorrow morning so he'll be able to do more. We try to stick to easy activities when he's accessed to make sure nothing bumps it. He's looking forward to doing firewood at his Grandparent's house tomorrow if he feels up to it.. Funny, huh? He loves to work!
On to other information.. While we were at the clinic Thursday they made sure that Brendon picked out a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch in the back. They told him to pick out 2, so he did. This brings the total number of pumpkins for Brendon this year to 6. He loves carving them so this has been such a blessing! When he's not able to go to school he works on the pumpkins.
Today in Lewiston a mother of a Make-A-Wish child put on a fundraiser for Make-A-Wish. She had several small businesses that put items up for silent auctions, raffles and all kinds of other things. They also had a company giving free limo rides to Wish Children. Although we haven't gone on our wish trip yet we still have a special place in our hearts for them. We wanted to show our support and Bren wanted to take a spin in a limo so we went. It was so amazing! People knew of Brendon and they all were so nice. We had a few people tell us that they check the website often. We were so touched. Andy was hunting so it was just Bren and I. It was an Avon representative that was giving the limo rides so Bren and I went for a spin around the block. Brendon had never been in a limo and he thought it was pretty neat. When we got back to the hall Brendon started to not feel good so we went home. It was a dreary, yucky day but the people at the fundraiser today lifted our spirits.
Brendon started to feel better about an hour after getting home so we went to Chinese with our family for dinner. It was fun. Brendon again started to feel kind of cruddy after we ate so we went back home. He's sound asleep and we're hoping he'll feel much better tomorrow..
Here are a few pictures of some of the events listed above.
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That's it for tonight.. I'll update again soon. Take care! ~Amber
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