Here's a picture of Michael waiting in the doctors office in Madison. It was a long day for both of us.

OK...so I think I've figured out which days are the worst for Michael after chemo. He starts chemo on Wednesday and is at the hospital for about 4-6 hours. He has the pump on until Friday afternoon. Beginning Thursday he starts feeling bad. He's very grumpy, can't sleep and generally doesn't feel good at all. (We found out that they add steroids to his chemo to help with nausea which keeps him from sleeping.) This lasts until the following Thursday or Friday. And then the whole thing starts over again on Wednesday. So that works out to be about 7 days feeling really crappy and about 7 days feeling a little better.

They seem to think he'll need to do 2 months of chemo which is about 5 rounds and then they'll do another CT scan to see if the chemo is working. He'll more than likely need to start on the chemo again right away. If it's working, they don't want to give the tumors time to return and multiply.

I haven't been very successful in helping him gain some weight back. I would have to guess that he's eating about 1000-1500 calories a day and he certainly isn't very physically active. So I don't believe he is burning more calories than he is eating so I can't quite figure out why the rapid weight loss?!? Very frustrating!!