Reincarnated As A Mother

Friday, December 19, 2014

Illumination

I didn't take any selfies of Kean and I today-- the ones that
would have shown him whimpering, grimacing and boring his head into my chest
in pain.
Can I vent and say again how much I hate, hate, hate cancer.
I swear this has to be as bad as water boarding-- having to watch
your baby suffering.
He had stretches where he put on a happy face--
thank goodness.
Otherwise, I think I would have checked myself into you know where.
Tonight, just after 8, he told me he wanted to go night night.
But at least now, I have some insight into how he is feeling.
I met a girl up at Camp Rainbow Gold's Family Winter Retreat--
an eleven year old who has Kean's same kind of cancer and is
in the same phase of treatment he's in.
I had her go through each drug he's on and tell me what it feels like.
So in case you are wondering, the two Chemo drugs he took Wednesday
and the third one he takes nightly:
1. makes every bone in his body hurt.
2.  makes all food taste like metal.
3.  makes lights and sun hurt his eyes.
4.  makes sounds hurt his ears and head.
That last one is particularly problematic, with three very loud sisters.
Gotta work on that.
Here all this time, I thought his reacting to noise was a Down's thing.
I'm still learning and I'm still praying we get through this.
One day at a time... right?
But I do owe a thank you to one brave girl (thanks K.T. for
sharing with me) and to my friend Teresa Peery who
brought over a huge tub of Vanilla ice cream tonight for Kean.
He's caught on to me serving him yogurt mixed with frozen berries
when he asks for ice cream!

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