by James & Shannon | Jul 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
The first IV Chemotherapy medication officially began around 11:30pm. They gave her 3 different premeds to prevent nausea including one to protect her bladder. In general, most medications or their metabolites are eventually excreted thru the urine and some of the...
by James & Shannon | Jul 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
We’ve been anxiously waiting all morning for Dr. Abuasab to stop by. He showed up around noon with residents in tow. He has given Shannon a diagnosis of:Early T-Cell Precursor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ETP ALL). He said that 10 years ago the prognosis would...
by James & Shannon | Jul 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Shannon was NPO since midnight last night for her line placement this morning. She slept pretty good last night. She showered this morning and was looking all pretty when they took her to Interventional Radiology for the line placement. I was thinking...
by James & Shannon | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
This post will include events from yesterday, July 9th, and today, July 10th. Yesterday our daughter Jesslyn came to sit with Shannon while I was out running around. I had to go home to take care of some items at the house: Took the boys with me to get gas for the...
by James & Shannon | Jul 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Hurricane Beryl hit us this morning. We couldn’t see much from the hospital window other than lots of rain blowing sideways. It wasn’t until our boys sent us pics of the back yard that I realized it was a pretty significant storm. Parts of our fence fell...
by James & Shannon | Jul 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Shannon had a fever this evening of 102.5 °F. The nurse gave her Tylenol and it dropped to 100.9 °F. The doctor ordered blood cultures x2 and also started her on 2 IV antibiotics (Vancomycin and Cefepime). They’re also doing a urine culture. These cultures are...
