A down day for Ellie...

Unfortunately, Ellie is not feeling as well as we'd like. She has not had as much of a problem with diarrhea as we were told to expect, but instead Ellie is fighting nausea and lack of appetite as well as stomach pain. Today she has been unable to eat any solid food and has still thrown up once. She has been on constant fluids since Wednesday (we can bring her home with a backpack of fluids so she's able to get them from home). Tomorrow we will take her in to the hospital and spend a couple of days inpatient while she is set up with TPN (IV nutrition). We were hoping that it wouldn't have come to this, but we can't let her go without food - she just doesn't have the body weight to afford it. It strikes me as a little ironic that this is the first chemo that has caused her to need TPN and it was supposed to be the light one. She needed it of course during her time in the ICU, but that wasn't directly chemo induced... I just think that Ellie's body is too tired and spent to handle even the "light" chemo. (Plus I'm starting to think that there's no such thing as light chemo - that's kind of an oxymoron.)

We will let you know how tomorrow goes, but for now we are relieved that Ellie will be able to get some medication and nutrition that will help her feel better. While she's not constantly miserable, she is quite weak and tired. Thank you all for your love and prayers!