Thank you all! Well, we went in this morning and reported to chemo. His labs came back awful and the chemo doc said, "no go." We spend the day in the hydration lab getting him pumped up full of saline and potassium instead of poison. haha While I am nervous about him not getting the third round of Cisplatin, I am a bit relieved. He is in pretty bad shape today. The deal breaker was his kidney function numbers. Lousy and we all know how hard Cisplatin is on kidneys. His WBC and Platelet counts were much too low, as well.

One good thing came out of today, he finally agreed to start handling the pain more aggressively. He has pretty bad reactions to all the normal pain meds. He gets headaches, nausea and itching. The chemo doc wrote out a prescription for a Fentanyl patch. I'm hopeful it will do the job.

He managed rads today. I think the combo of Zofran and his pretreatment Ativan helped really relax him. Thank you, Tony, for your wonderful suggestions on the whole mucous problem. I think that is our biggest hurdle at this moment. I am absolutely going to get him on here and have him try these suggestions. You all are fantastic and so generous to take your time and help us newbies. Hopefully, I can someday return the favor.