hospital visit #6?

Six hospital visits since Feb? That is really a lot.. Basically one a month....A most of those visit where for a week but one was for a day. But most where a week long. Well, how is David after is first round of this new chemo? Well since today... he is now officially bald. I'm still getting used to him walking into a room. I've been having to do a double take because it does not look like my husband who had such thick hair.. But, I know you are all wondering... he does not look half bad. It's growing on me ;-D
But back to the hospital visit... On Thursday afternoon I noticed he was running a fever of about 101.2. So i called COHA (The oncology office) and they said to bring him in tomorrow morning, and also give him Tylenol. So we went in at 9:30 and they did a lot of blood test and his White Blood Cells(WBC) and his granulocytes(GR) were extremely low. David had gotten a treatment of Chemo on tues and from the tests they did we had already known they where low. oh and WBC and GR are what they body uses to fight infections. So they put him in the oncology wing of the hospital and there we stayed until today (Mon). While in the hospital David was put on IV antibiotics. That dropped his fever and his blood counts slowly came up. By the way, the oncology wing at memorial hospital is fantastic! The room is huge! (well compared to other hospital rooms) and we had a microwave and fridge! Yippee! That meant i could microwave little noodle packs for lunches and dinners.
I just looked back to the last post, and you guys do not know anything since radiation.. (and by that I mean you've heard it from someone who heard it from someone who heard it from me ;-) The Drs thing that David has a different type of cancer. Germ Cell. This is typically a testicular cancer. Although they are not 100% sure about that either. It is the one that makes sense. So they decided to treat him like that is what it is. So we will be doing 4 rounds (approximately) of chemotherapy. This chemo should work better because it is geared towards this type of cancers. Each round lasts 3 weeks. The first week David goes in and will be at the oncology center for 6 hours Mon-fri. The 2nd and 3rd week he will go in on Mondays for an hour or so. And that is one round, so 4 rounds will take about 12 weeks. So we have 9 weeks left. This week is a go everyday week.
We will be getting a lot of tests done after this round of chemo so in about 3 weeks we will find out how much the tumor has shrunk.
David is still feeling good about the treatments. Although the chemo has not been to horrible yet. It has made him nausea and fatigued. But it has not been to bad yet he still feels up to doing things.
Me.. Well I start work again tomorrow. So I will hopefully be able to juggle everything and not feel to guilty leaving David alone at chemos :( .
Ok well I think thats about caught everyone up..