Bump in the road...

Well we should have known this was coming, Eric was having such a few good days. We have hit a bump in the road (one I hoped would not come but knew probably would happen). The whole roller coaster thing, huh? Eric last night around 12 midnight started throwing up, quite a bit. So they increased his ABH nausea medicine. He is still not eating just drinking water so I am not sure what really got him going. Then around the same time he started saying his hands were aching and hurting him, we noticed yesterday afternoon that they were getting a little red, swollen looking like a sunburn on his palms and then on his outside of his hands they are discolored a little like they are tanner on the fingers and tips of his fingers.

We thought it probably was from Eric washing his hands so much and they say your skin after all this chemo becomes more fragile, thin. So we were having him put on lotion alot. Well his pain level started to increase pretty bad from his hands feeling sore and aching, throbbing like a sunburn on them. So the nurses asked what his pain level was he said 8 out of 10, they gave him morphine. The nurse said in the morning we will have the doctors look at it. However then through the night he started running a fever of 100.8 and the rash has become more red on his palms of his hands.

Update: While I was writing this the doctors just came in and said they are concerned that the rash on his hands is GVHD (Graft Vs. Host ) what we don't want. The fever they are concerned about and have taken him down to get chest x-rays, and additional tests. I am sure everyone already is but please continue to pray for Eric, please pray the doctors and find out what is it and that they will be able to treat him and control it. I feel so bad Eric was looking so forward to the kids coming, I guess at least they will be here to visit and can give him a boost on his morale and energy again. I will keep everyone posted once I know. We knew there would be bumps in the road and we have hit one, it just we were having such good days, I felt like maybe this is starting to be over and we can get back to our normal life. I know we will, I know the Lord is here for us and he will help us through this like he has been. I just pray for strength, for Eric and for the doctors knowledge and to be guided what they need to do for Eric.