Today Peyton had his first chemotherapy treatment. He did so great! What a brave boy he has been over the last few days. We are so proud to be his parents! His attitude through everything has been amazing; even when he's tired and "just wants to go home." He didn't have any side effects today. However, he could still have symptoms over the next few days. Doctors did give him nausea medicine for his stomach just in case he experienced any discomfort, but so far he's done great! Doctors did inform us that even if he does fine with this week's treatment that's really no indication of how next week's treatment will go. Each week could be different. He might not have symptoms this time around but could the next. Darn!! I guess we'll take each week as they come and pray for him to just bounce back each time. Hopefully the medicine will do what it's supposed to do and this won't be a huge issue for him.
Peyton didn't complain at all today about his incision where they placed the port. The only time he even gave it much attention was when the nurse ask him to raise his arms up high and he realized he couldn't do that with his left arm very easily; he felt a little tugging on the inision I'm sure. I saw him squint just a bit, but that was all. What a big boy....
We are so very excited to be heading back home tomorrow. We've been in Denver since Friday. Can't wait to return to normal life for a few days. We don't have to be back until the 13th. Our schedule is 4 weeks on, 2 weeks off. Meaning Peyton will receive treatment once a week, for 4 weeks ,and then he'll have 2 weeks off with no treatment. This will continue for the next year.
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