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Hey All,
It's been a crazy month. As I posted before, after my boyfriend's surgery he got sick with high fevers. They wound up hospitalizing him for over a week, and aren't 100% sure what caused his illnesses, but they think that after surgery he may not have taken a deep enough breath and the bottom of a lung collapsed allowing a viral infection to grow. Right now it's been over 2 weeks since he got sick and he's home, but still getting low grade fevers, and has pneumonia. Because the virus also attacked his liver he's had to stop taking anti-depressants he was on, and while he's really trying to be strong - I can see him being negative too. Granted, with everything going on - it would be hard to NOT be negative.
While he was in the hospital we finally saw his medical oncologist. They said that his tumors came out as seminomas, but because his levels of HCG were so incredibly high they feel there might be some non-seminoma components somewhere (full torso cat scan only revealed one lymph node a few centimeters bigger than it should be in his abdomen). Because of that they're opting for chemo. He'll start on the 13th, and for the first day of it I said I would stay with him the whole day. But after that, due to work, his friends are devising pick up and drop off schedules. He'll be on etoposide and cisplatin (sp?). They told him he'd need 4 rounds of it.
He's not as scared for the chemo as he is of this infection - whatever it is - that still has a hold on him. He still has to have a viability test done on his semen to see if it will be worth it for him to bank, and if it is he'll spend time next week doing that.
I've pretty much moved in with him for the past two weeks to take care of him, but next week I have to go home (for my sanity and because my cat sitter is going out of town).
So that's the update.
Thanks for being there
E
It's been a crazy month. As I posted before, after my boyfriend's surgery he got sick with high fevers. They wound up hospitalizing him for over a week, and aren't 100% sure what caused his illnesses, but they think that after surgery he may not have taken a deep enough breath and the bottom of a lung collapsed allowing a viral infection to grow. Right now it's been over 2 weeks since he got sick and he's home, but still getting low grade fevers, and has pneumonia. Because the virus also attacked his liver he's had to stop taking anti-depressants he was on, and while he's really trying to be strong - I can see him being negative too. Granted, with everything going on - it would be hard to NOT be negative.
While he was in the hospital we finally saw his medical oncologist. They said that his tumors came out as seminomas, but because his levels of HCG were so incredibly high they feel there might be some non-seminoma components somewhere (full torso cat scan only revealed one lymph node a few centimeters bigger than it should be in his abdomen). Because of that they're opting for chemo. He'll start on the 13th, and for the first day of it I said I would stay with him the whole day. But after that, due to work, his friends are devising pick up and drop off schedules. He'll be on etoposide and cisplatin (sp?). They told him he'd need 4 rounds of it.
He's not as scared for the chemo as he is of this infection - whatever it is - that still has a hold on him. He still has to have a viability test done on his semen to see if it will be worth it for him to bank, and if it is he'll spend time next week doing that.
I've pretty much moved in with him for the past two weeks to take care of him, but next week I have to go home (for my sanity and because my cat sitter is going out of town).
So that's the update.
Thanks for being there
E
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