Update

It's time to give a quick update.  The last few days here in the hospital have been fine.  We have been coming and going for work, but one of us is always here with Maggie, of course.  I didn't update Tuesday or Wednesday because I really didn't have much to say.  Maggie received her chemo, played and had fun in the room during the day, then we pushed Maggie around in her car (with the IV pole rolling along with us) in the evenings.  Things went quite well.

Then...

This morning (Thursday) Maggie started to throw up, quite a few times actually, when she woke up.  It was tough to watch, though she seemed to be pretty cheerful in between heaves.  The doctors gave her Benadryl(which didn't quite do the job) before adding Ativan as well.  Both are anti-nausea drugs that tend to cause drowsiness as well.  Maggie fought that for a while, but ended up falling asleep around 1 and didn't wake up for 3 hours. She looked pretty loopy when she was awake for a while there.  But she didn't do badly through most of the afternoon/evening.  

Unfortunately, it started again tonight--similar to this morning.  Repeated throw ups with cheeriness in between.  We're a bit surprised by all of this as Maggie has handled these chemo drugs without incident before.  But, this is how it goes.  The doctor thought that she could have this nausea for 3 or 4 more days.  Let's hope that's not the case.

We're probably going home tomorrow--she's had chemo for 4 days now, and will wrap it up in the afternoon (Friday).  Assuming Maggie gets cleared to go after that, we'll go home in the evening with anti-nausea drugs at the ready.