Interleukin 2 - Round 2 - Day 2

November 11, 2014

Today Kevin had his second, third and fourth doses.  His symptoms came on much quicker than last time.  His nausea is much worse so they have him on quite a few different anti-nausea meds which make him sleepy.  So he is in a somewhat catatonic state right now and has been for most of the day.  He keeps saying "I'm trying to wake up" and I keep saying "just sleep through it, it's o.k.".  But I guess our subconscious wants to be awake.

Kevin, not very happy today.

His rigors are well controlled by giving him morphine prior to getting them.  So this dose, I am going to have the nurse come in and give him anti-nausea around the time he get's nauseous.  Hopefully that will work to keep the nausea at bay so he can get some rest.

His last blood work showed that his creatinine levels, which shows kidney function, are pretty high.  They are at 2.3, and the cut off for being allowed to continue is 2.5.  They decided that he would get the fourth dose today at 6 pm, but they will skip the 2 am dose to allow his body to get back to a more normal state.  Maybe we can get a little sleep tonight.  They will retest his blood tomorrow morning and if his levels are lower, he can then have the 10 am dose which would be dose 5.  If not, I'm not sure what the protocol would be.

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