Getting Worse Today

Cheryl woke this morning with yet more side effects from the treatments. Severely swollen face/throat and her "sunburn" is now cracking and starting to have open sores.

Dr. Friedman visited this evening and suspects DPD Deficiency.

He will be doing tests tomorrow and explained that this is a rare defect in people, so rare the insurance doesn't cover the testing and its hardly ever seen during chemo. Go figure...

All the tests will do is to try and narrow down the cause. Unfortunately, there is nothing to be done that will "flush" her system and speed the healing process.

She finally agreed to have morphine added to her IV tonight which is to cover some of the throat and mouth pains and also to help her get some sleep.

She needs prayers and thoughts right now because this is going to be the toughest battle she's had throughout all of the things she's endured this year.