As of this morning Jason has another headache and no one can
really figure this one out. He is taking Dilaudid again to relieve his pain but
I think it has a side effect that Jason doesn’t seem to notice. After he takes
the drug, he starts scratching his face, neck and back. With low platelets he
needs to be careful because scratching has led to large blood spots under his
skin. They are now on his face, chest, shoulders and back. Without platelets
these spots are not healing. And if there are any bacteria under his
fingernails he needs to avoid scratching his skin to prevent the possibility of
an infection; chemotherapy has taken away most of his immune system’s fighting
chance to destroy an infection.
And the hair loss has begun. Jason’s beard started falling
out in clumps last night, and he can pull out chunks of his hair this morning. Though,
he pulled on some leg hairs and those were not ready to budge. He let out a
high-pitched, “Youch!” This made me laugh.
I bought him a gift a few days ago that will hopefully
arrive in the mail soon. I cannot wait to show everyone. I am pretty proud that
I thought of it and I know he is going to love it. Plus, he will be the only
person he knows to own one. Hopefully he will let me take his picture with it
when it arrives. I have a feeling a lot of chemotherapy patients will be
getting them in the future. No guesses, please. I don’t want him to find out
about it and I don’t want others to get it for him before me… It is my gift to
my husband.
This morning Jason doesn’t feel too terrible. But he is far
from well, and neither of us were able to sleep last night.
Today he is going to shave his head again and shower. I am
going to try to work using the tiny bit of energy I stored after only two hours
of sleep. While I am here I want to be able to keep my current job and still
take care of my husband. It is hard to work with interruptions every half hour
that last between 5 and 20 minutes so taking care of Jason will be my priority.
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