Last day of Chemo and the following 2 weeks.

 One of Jeff's nurses that took good care of him and made sure he was poked often.

 Then the next day he went in for the Neulasta shot and this is the other nurse that took really good care of him. 

This was the end of the smiles...
Here is what happened next:
Shot was given on Monday afternoon, an hour later he was running fevers.  He ran fevers for about 3-4 days along with swelling of the face, lips, or tongue, breathing problems, fever.  By the weekend he was starting to feel better.  At this point I am thinking hurray we are on the way to recovery.  Then going into week two Sunday night Jeff started to feel a little achy.  Monday he was really aching in his back, legs, arms, all the way to his toes and fingertips.  So I stayed home Monday and rubbed his back, and legs all day long.  It helped but still not enough to take away the pain.  By Tuesday morning Jeff was in so much pain he couldn't even walk to the bathroom and back.  So I got on the phone called the doctor office and they said he should not be in this much pain so to bring him in.  I took him in and they gave him a liter of fluids and some medicine for the pain. Jeff's mom came over to spend the day and sit with Jeff so that I could go to work.  She met us at the Hospital. I asked Jeff if I could go to work or if he wanted me to stay.  He asked me to stay with him, he sat there and held my hand.  It was really sweet and I could tell he really didn't feel good.  So Kathy took Jeff home and I went to Target and picked up a weeks worth of pain meds.  Now I am hoping we are now on the road to recovery.  Not so quick life said. Jeff started to run fevers Tuesday night.  Dave came to our home after working at the cannery all day and the three of us went to Zac's winter band concert to see him perform.  Zac was disappointed that Jeff was not able to come, but understood that right now was not a good time.  So Wednesday morning I took Jeff back to his family doctor's office and they diagnosed him with a prostate infection which he is prone to getting.  So they put him on antibiotics.  Ok now we are on the road to recovery I am thinking.  So really I shouldn't think this as every time I do something else goes wrong.  So Thursday comes and goes and Jeff's feeling a bit sick to his stomach, Friday we go back to Dr. Sariano for another blood test to see how his levels are doing.  He told Jeff that if he is not in any more pain to stop the pain meds.  We only had another day to go, but ok.  So off the pain meds he went.  Then we ran to see Zac perform at the school as the Jazz Band and Choir was on tour.  Going around to elementary schools and performing for the 5th graders. After this all the kids headed over to Randy's for some lunch.  One of the kids forgot his money to pay for lunch so Zac offered him his money and we could pay for Zac's.  So we went to lunch with the kids and sat with Zac and his friend Eddie. What a nice kid.  So we had lunch and Jeff ordered the philly steak sandwich, which came with mushrooms.  Oops.  Jeff is allergic to mushrooms.  So Friday night Jeff's stomach is really hurting him.  We figured that it was the mushrooms as this is the type of reaction he gets to eating mushrooms and by late Saturday afternoon Jeff feels up to running a couple of errands with us.  So off we go and by the time we are done a couple of hours later Jeff is worn out.  So we take him home and Zac and I go back out.  This medicine Jeff is on for the antibiotic Jeff has to take every 6 hours.  So we head to bed and now it is Sunday morning.  Jeff sleeps and sleeps.  We thought if he felt well enough we would try to meet up with his cousins.  Sunday at about 11 Jeff calls me back and mumbles something incoherent.  So I get a friend to bring Zac home from church and I head home early to check on Jeff.  He stumbles to the bathroom and back and tells me he doesn't feel good his stomach is still hurting.  He goes back to sleep until about 4 in the afternoon.  Of course I called Luke and told him Jeff was in no  shape to get together.  So Zac and I continue on with the afternoon.  Then Sunday evening I take Zac to the fireside at our bishops home and when we come back it is about time for the next dose of medicine.  About 45 minutes later Jeff is in so much pain and we know now that it can't be the mushrooms as he is usually feeling much better by this time and so we look up the medicine on the internet and under sever side effects and seek medical attention is sever stomach pain.  So we call the ER and talk to a nurse.  After Jeff's visit with her they wanted him to come in.  So its now about 9pm and we are headed to Loveland to the ER there.  Too many horror stories about our local ER.  So off we go and they quickly get him into a room far away from anyone else.  They take blood and give him another liter of fluids and more pain medicine and for the first time in 4 days he is not in as much pain.  They get the test results back and tell him that other than some of his levels being very low which they were concerned about, but we knew from Friday's appointment that it was actually better than Friday's levels.  They still did not think he should be in this much pain with the antibiotics and asked if we would consent to a CT scan.  They just didn't want to miss anything.  So off he went and when they came back with the results they were concerned about the size of his spleen.  It was measuring at 18 cm.  We told them that it had shrunk by 1 cm.  So this is a step in the right direction.  So they put him on a new antibiotic and now he is finally starting to feel better.  However on the ride home after hitting every bump in the road he was in a bit more pain that he was a half hour ago.  I figured I couldn't miss any of the bumps. :-)  So we contacted his oncology doctor Monday morning and read him the results of the test and he was very happy that his levels are starting to come up.  So I picked up the new antibiotic and advised the pharmacy of all the known medicines that Jeff is allergic to so that we won't have to go through this again in the future.  Then off to work I went.  It seemed like for a week or so I was only getting to work a half day with all the issues that Jeff was having.  So I have finally been able to work all the rest of the week.  Three full days.  Yea!!  Jeff has spent most all day of every day sleeping until about 3 or 4 in the afternoon.  He says that right now he just feels weak and tired and his lungs don't feel like they are working at full capacity.  So he has just stayed down all week.  Tomorrow we go in for the next blood test to see where the levels are at.