Roid rampages

Seth has been to hospital twice this week, twice last week for treatments. He had his last needle on Tuesday which was great. The steroids are taking a toll on him this time around and he is swinging wildly from cranky, to crying, to cheeky to exhausted in the space of seconds. He is really tired all the time and just lays around with no energy. This is the first time throughout the whole treatment I have seen this utter exhaustion from him. He has put on weight again and has the most gorgeous chubby cheeks and tubby tum. He plans all meals we are going to have and accompanies me to the shops to make sure I get all the things he is craving and is my little cooking buddy. Food is our life at the moment and if the craving isn't satisfied, he obsesses over it and talks about it non stop. Chicken taco's tops the list with twiggy sticks a close second again. It is nothing for him to eat two breakfast's, munch on snacks all morning, eat 3 sandwiches, munch all afternoon then eat more than his dad for dinner and top it off with a couple yoghurts and drinks of milk after dinner. A funny thing we have noticed with these steroids is that he chatters really quickly when he talks - like he is on fast forward. The steroid dose dropped as of yesterday and he will be finished in about a week and I am beginning to see a slight difference in his energy levels already.
Seth needed another heart echo done today before he had his next dose of Dauxorubicin and Vincristine which is the red one that take an hour and a clear one that takes 10 minutes to go through his line. He seems to have handled it well so far and he has one more lot of those two before starting a new block of different chemo. We will get a week's break between these two lots and I am really looking forward to staying at home as the next chemo is 4 days a week back and forth for a couple weeks, but hopefully I will be able to go to Campbelltown for 3 of those 4 days.