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I have had a few people tell me that they have not been able to post comments on the blog. I found the problem and fixed it. You should be able to post your comments now.

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Crystal

Not Great

Robert hasn't been feeling so good. It started yesterday. He has aches and pains all over. But his mouth has been bothering him the most. His jaw, teeth, and tongue hurt so its been hard for him to chew. He has been a good sport though! He went to work today and has been resting since he got home. He is planning on working tomorrow if he is feeling up to it in the morning. It has been hard seeing him in pain and not being able to make it go away. We are hoping things will get better as his body recovers from the Chemo. There is not much we can do but wait and see what will happen. Please keep him in your prayers!

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Crystal

Update

Robert has been doing surprisingly well the past few days. He has not been nauseous or sick and yesterday he started to get some color back in his face. We are hoping that it will stay this way... but its hard telling what will happen. He has his labs on Thursday to check his blood counts and on Friday he is going to get a port put in his chest so that they can give him the Chemo without ruining all the veins in his arms. Hopefully the next few days won't be too eventful...


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First Treatment

Robert had his first round of Chemo today. Everything went well. He looks really pale and he is kinda tired but other than that he says he is doing ok. They gave us about 5 different prescriptions to help him with whatever side affects may come along. We are not quite sure how he is going to react to the treatments so he is going to stay home from work tomorrow and just take it easy. He looks like he could use a good nights rest! We will see how things go tomorrow.. and I will keep everyone posted!

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Crystal

Finally Getting Started!

Robert's appointment today went well. We got a lot of information to help us prepare for Robert to start his Chemotherapy treatments. The results from all his tests were good. He is supposed to be getting about 6 cycles. One cycle will consist of 2 treatments a month (2 weeks apart) and will last about 3-4 hours each. They keep telling us that everything should go well since he is so young and should bounce back well from the treatments. We are hoping for the best. :) Tomorrow is his first treatment. I will let you all know how it goes!

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Crystal

News

We finally found out today that Robert does indeed have stage III Hodgkin's Lymphoma (that is the better of the two). Now that they know for sure what it is we can get his Chemotherapy started. Tomorrow we go in to talk to the nurse so she can inform us of all the things that are yet to come and Thursday afternoon he will start his first cycle. We were relieved when we got the news, now we can get things started and get Robert better!! Yay!

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Crystal

Waiting

Roberts appointment for tomorrow morning was canceled. The pathologists here think that he has Non-Hodgkins but the people they sent the biopsy to for a second opinion think he has Hodgkin's. They are different forms of cancer and need to be treated differently. So to be sure they have to send it out for a third opinion. We don't know how soon that opinion will come back but the nurse practitioner at the doctors office said it could be as soon as tomorrow. Now we are just waiting... We will update everyone as soon as we know whats going on.

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Crystal