I know, I know...I'm a bad blogger, but no worries...Clayton is doing GREAT!
Starting with this round of chemo, his dosages have been and will be reduced by 50%- that isn't a reduction in time, just strength. Let me answer the inevitable question: what will giving him less chemo do at this point? According to the oncologist, probably nothing because the majority of the tumor's reaction to chemo should have been seen in the first few rounds of chemo. Therefore at this point in his therapy there shouldn't be too much difference between 100% and 50%. Not the easiest concept to grasp when your number one goal is to obliterate your child's tumor, but we don't have much choice.
I assume that reduction is what has kept Clayton from being as nauseas as he was the last time he had this combination of meds. So far he has had very little nausea and this trip has felt like little more than a boring hospital stay- which beats the alternative. The only thing out of the ordinary is that he has some congestion and a cough BUT no fever! No fever is the key. That and the fact that all the doctors and nurses listening to his chest say he sounds clear.
So for now the plan is to go home tomorrow. Then the next two weeks will hold scans and the the surgery. Oh, the surgery. It has been along time coming. At least it feels that way...
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