One Day Down!

SO glad this morning is all over!  During radiation the doctors had a hard time keeping Alex's airway open.  With his throat paralysis he isn't able to get rid of just the normal saliva so he coughs a lot.  Every time he coughs they have to make sure he is still in the exact position and readjust him, so it took a lot longer than expected.  Which made us really anxious waiting. He took a long time to really wake up. Hopefully tomorrow will go better.  

Tonight I just feel so blessed!  I have been so nervous about today with starting the radiation and the chemo. There are so many side effects and I don't want Alex to have to go through any of it!  This morning started off early since we had to check in at 7:30 at LDS Hospital in SLC.  My mother and father-in-law came to watch the other kids and to make sure they made it to school and my sister Helen came up to clean while we were at the hospital!  We are so lucky! We have had so much help with carpooling the kids to school and activities, dinners and sweet gifts for Alex to keep his spirits up. 

Alex hates to take medicine and now he is taking about 6 different kinds, some more than once a day.  He isn't able to swallow the pills so we have to crush it up and put it in pudding or jello but he can still taste it.  We added the chemo pill and antibiotic tonight and we were told that it does not taste good. The chemo pills are over $300 a pill so it is really important he doesn't spit it out. So I was nervous he wouldn't take it and nervous for when he would take it because of all the side effects.  He took ALL his medicine like a rock star!  We asked him how it was and he said Uh, not good but not too bad.  I couldn't believe it! We so needed tonight to go smoothly.