Steve has now finished the treatment for this week and is doing his best to recover his body and his mind from the awful time he has had. He through sheer determination and strength put his body through 8 terrible courses of this drug. Each dose had more of an impact on his body, with the 7th dose having such a detrimental effect on his blood pressure that the doctor on duty decided to not give him the 8th dose. However this morning through mutual agreement between Steve and his doctor they decided to give it one more shot!
He had a terrible night with a fever which combined with shakes and low blood pressure meant that it was a relief when they said he could not have his 8th dose at 4am. He then spent the rest of the night struggling to get comfortable with terrible aching joints and fever and sweats.
This treatment is so relentless no sooner have you started to come through one dose then the next one is being administered. And as the doses go on and your body suffers more and more, it of course takes longer to recover from the side effects.
I will finish off this entry tomorrow as now I need to get some sleep. But once again thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. Now we need to focus on getting Steve up and off of the drips, so he can come home to his family.
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