Wednesday

Today was all around a pretty good day for Marty. We are encouraged by the progress that we see him making on a daily basis. The physiotherapist and the occupational therapist came by today. They made Marty put on his own socks and pyjama pants while lying in bed. He also sat up in bed trying to balance himself -- this uses a lot of core muscles. Then Marty stood up beside his bed. 

The speech therapist came by to do a swallow study. Every time Marty took a sip of water he coughed so the speech therapist was not comfortable with him taking anything more than ice chips at this time. As the speech therapist cannot determine whether or not water from the ice chips is going into Marty's lungs, she has put a limit on the amount of ice chips he can have at a time. She will be by again in the next couple of days to do another swallow test, to see if there is any improvement.  

This morning Marty had his last dose of chemotherapy.  He had a good sleep last night and was not bothered by nausea or vomiting.  

The respiratory therapist came in today to replace Marty's tracheotomy (trach) tube with a different style trach tube. While at first we were wondering why the style change, we later found out that the "new" style is just the brand of trach tube that the Juravinski Cancer Centre stocks. It's also very normal that trach tubes are replaced on a fairly regular basis.

We continue to thank God for the improvements that we see in Marty's health and pray that as we approach day seven (typically a chemo patient's "low" day) that Marty will continue to do well.

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal." -- Isaiah 26:3-4

Amanda