Less nausea and MRI

This week we met with a nurse practitioner at Huntsman who helps the doctor with symptom management, especially pain.  We talked about the nausea which has really been the most debilitating thing for Craig in the last week.  She told as about a drug that is great for pain and nausea and increases your appetite and we realized he's already taking it!  But not enough of it...so she doubled the dose and it has really helped with the nausea.  It's Zyprexa which is listed as an anti-psychotic but it's really a perfect cancer drug.  He took an extra one when we got home and it made him feel less nauseous all night!  So far so good.  It hasn't really helped with the appetite but she prescribed another drug, Reglan, to help with that.  He hasn't started that one yet as we've learned to just try one drug at a time to see how it affects you.  When you start two at once you don't know which one is causing new side effects.

Today he's having an MRI of his liver.  They finally figured out how to take him off the glucose pump since it can't go in the MRI room.  They're going to have a nurse with a shot of D50 glucose standing by to give it to him if he needs it during the 45 minute MRI.  We'll hear about the MRI on Monday with Dr. Cizman, the intervention radiologist.  Craig said to me this morning, "this is the last procedure I'm doing".