Saturday, June 21st
Day 5

The expected side effects of chemotherapy caught up with Camryn last night. As Lee Ann phrased it, "I had to do a clean up on isle four at 2:00 am". Having six kids, and thus a fair amount of experience with this type of "hazmat" clean up, Lee Ann knew just what to do. Don't assume that I was never involved with those  kinds of clean up at home, because I was. In fact, I seemed to be the one who always had to change the "radioactive" diapers. I digress again, back to the original topic, to control the nausea, Camryn's  medication dosage was increased. The one side effect of that increase was that she was out cold for ten hours. Camryn normally is a very deep sleeper, so the added med enhanced the deep sleep. The nurses had a tough time getting her awake for her scheduled late morning dosing of her meds. Camryn was pretty much a slug in bed most of the day but Lee Ann got her up and walking a bit. Anyway, everything is still on course for Friday's bone marrow transplant. Tomorrow Camryn will start on an additional chemotherapy drug. This one is more potent that the current medication, so increased side effects are expected, possibly even the dreaded hair loss. Camryn will continue her chemotherapy treatments through Wednesday, then Thursday off, then Friday the transplant. Morgan is starting to get a little nervous, but tries to hide it. It's ok to be nervous Morgan, there is no shame in that.

Camryn and her decorated hospital room, home for the six weeks of hospitalization. Compliments of mom. Nice job mom