The shingles have mostly healed up but the last remaining few decided to flare up and be rather itchy. Sawyer's been taking Benadryl to help but no surprise it makes him a bit sleepy. He slept most of the way up to Rochester yesterday for his appointment and he certainly slept the entire way home! It was a typical spinal tap clinic day: no food after 5 am, no liquids after 8 am, get weighed, height measured, blood pressure check, talk with the nurse practitioner, get knocked out for the spinal tap, receive additional chemo, heat pack on his back to help his lower back not cramp up from the needle prick, lay down for an hour to prevent a migraine from the spinal tap, try to eat something and then go home.
He is receiving chemo at home again this week through Thursday so we had to wait for the hospital pharmacy to mix up the syringes for us to bring home, and they were pretty slow getting to it. That chemo makes him tired as well.
It's going to be a week of pushing through grogginess/weariness to try to get a chunk of homework and tests done before next week. The next few weeks he has to go 3 times a week to Rochester which won't leave much time for anything, much less final exams and regents, but he'll have to manage it. Our target date right now is June 22nd: last day of possible school assignments and tutoring. Then he'll have one less thing to worry about!
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