Jordan received chemo this past Wednesday, it consisted of a spinal tap and when they are in there pulling the fluid from the spine, they also inject some chemo medicine. Once he came out of the anesthesia, we went back to the room where he received two more chemo medicines. After an eight hour day, the last thing was to change his pic line dressing and like always they don't like the rash they see, so once again we are changing how we apply the bandages and now switching to iodine to clean it and have to now change the dressing every other day rather than once a week. It seems to be helping, his rash is much better.

Unfortunately the throwing up started that evening while we were at home. The nurses always give him dose of zolfran before we leave for the nauseousness but it only lasts so long. When Jordan is sick like this Shawn and I take turns sleeping on the couch with him and pretty much stay up the entire night. We do find it frustrating though, because its very hard for Jordan to keep any of his meds down when he just vomits them right back up. We wish we could take the medicines home with us and give them to him in the pic line like the nurses do. It would make things so much easier! We also give Jordan ativan and benadryl when he is so sick and vomiting, this is recommended by the doctors, to relax him and make him sleep. When he can keep these all down, it does seem to take the edge off.

This time around, Jordan did not throw up as long but seemed to stay sick longer with laying around a lot and sleeping more. He finally started to feel better on Sunday. We are due back again this Wednesday for more. Thankfully, no spinal tap, he will get two chemo meds at the doctors office. The next treatment after that will be the following Wednesday which will be the day before Thanksgiving...yes, we are all bummed!

For Jordan's Cause, we will be having a garage sale at my sister and brother-in-law's house this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Their address is 35275 Wildwood Canyon Drive in Yucaipa. The nearest cross street is Bryant. All you garage sale shoppers...come on out!

Lastly...When Jordan was sick on Saturday with no life in him and feeling his weakest, I found the perfect bible verse, 2 Corinthians 12:9 and it talks about God's power working the best in our times of weakness. When I read this to Jordan, it brought tears to both of us, that verse was exactly the verse we needed to get us through that day. I'm so glad I found that seed to plant in Jordan's mind and heart, it helped reassure us we are not facing this battle alone...even in our times of weakness.