Sam’s medicines, Feb. 10 2007
Check this out. Here’s a photo of what I had to give Sam last night as part of his chemotherapy. On the far right is a cup of cranberry juice. He likes the juice because it’s the way he washes down the meds. To the left of the juice is decadron, a steroid he takes every month for five days. It makes him very, very hungry. This morning was his last dose of decadron for the month. To the left of the decadron is Bactrim. He takes Bactrim every Saturday and Sunday, twice a day, morning and night. Bactrim prevents against a peculiar strain of pneumonia that is devastating and only seems to occur among cancer patients (docs don’t exactly know why, but they know how to prevent against it). The little blip next to the Bactrim is a tab of Pepcid. He actually takes the Pepcid with the decadron, since the decadron is pretty acidic and can hurt his stomach. He takes all of the forementioned at once. Then, an hour after his last meal, I give him the last med on the left, 6MP. I usually have to wake him up to give him the 6MP.
posted Feb 11, 2007, 5:41pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
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Sam must be a brave little guy! As you all must be! Rudy, your family remains in my prayers. Thanks for the moving post.
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