Not Today

So Ric will not be going home today as his electrolytes are still not where they need to be so the IV is back flowing with 3 different bags of fluids. He looks better and feels better but need to get things back in line before they can send him home. He took a shower this morning and is eating a good breakfast. Need to also get the diarrhea to stop as that is what is throwing him off. But as I said yesterday this is all the results of the chemo. What's interesting is he had a very low dose of chemo and it was a low toxicity chemo. Hate to see what he would have had for side effects if it was a longer stint of chemo with a higher toxicity. ugggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg! He is not very happy about this but as the doctors told him it would not be good to send him home like this as there are too many things that could happen - all of which are really bad. Believe me I would like to get him home too so I could sleep in my own bed - this recliner chair is not at all comfortable and hospitals are not a good place to try to get some sleep. They will not be doing the CT scan nor MRI here at the hospital due to what the insurance will/will not pay. So he will not be getting them until next week which also means our New York trip will probably have to be rescheduled. Trying to keep the spirits up but it's really getting difficult when everything just seems to be a roadblock. My job at work is to help remove roadblocks but these are not roadblocks I can remove for Ric. So here we are waiting again - guess this weeks lesson is in learning patience :)