Please, please, Heather and Seth, get him off the Cisplatin! I was pretty sick with that and had hearing issues, which I was told by one oncology doc would become deafness if I continued on the Cisplatin. I was a stage IV, and was switched to a mix of Carboplatin and Taxol, which I had four times with no nausea or any side effect exect hair loss, and that grew back. I am more than three years out and doing just fine, so the second chemo mix was effective and much easier to take. As a much older doc said to me when I mentioned the hearing issues, "Won't be much good to cure you if you end up deaf as a post." Don't know if I completely agree, but you sure don't want a deaf brother/friend. I am very serious about this and encourage you in the strongest way to take action about this at the first opportunity.