Hi again! I found that last night was much better than the night after day one. He just seemed calmer and not as jittery from the steroids. Granted, we did request they reduce that medication which they did by 20%. He felt a little nausea so he took his first prescription anti-nausea, one of many we picked up at CVS over the weekend.
I think if we had been reading this forum earlier in advance, we would have fed him more fiber rich foods the week leading to starting the chemo because the anti-nausea meds have made him a bit stopped up. We went to CVS yesterday to get Miralax and anti-bacterial hand sanitizer for the car, etc. , which we should have purchased in advance. But like Dave said, you could wait to see what you need as everyone is different. Our care center has a pharmacy on the ground level, but we find CVS to be cheaper so we go on the way home.
Thankfully no mouth sores yet, although he is now brushing with a salt-toothpaste from Whole Foods and ringsing with baking soda and water, just to be on the preventative safe side.
Dreading next week as we fear that he will feel worse then, but for the time being, I'm still saying "so far so good."
I think if we had been reading this forum earlier in advance, we would have fed him more fiber rich foods the week leading to starting the chemo because the anti-nausea meds have made him a bit stopped up. We went to CVS yesterday to get Miralax and anti-bacterial hand sanitizer for the car, etc. , which we should have purchased in advance. But like Dave said, you could wait to see what you need as everyone is different. Our care center has a pharmacy on the ground level, but we find CVS to be cheaper so we go on the way home.
Thankfully no mouth sores yet, although he is now brushing with a salt-toothpaste from Whole Foods and ringsing with baking soda and water, just to be on the preventative safe side.
Dreading next week as we fear that he will feel worse then, but for the time being, I'm still saying "so far so good."
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