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Chemotherapy Cycle 3

Cycle 3 Chemo round 3 should have started at the beginning of February 2017 but it had to be delayed as Ryan's kidneys were struggling a little bit due to him being too dehydrated. The doctors sorted that problem and re-hydrated him, but the following day when they took blood to check his levels, his neutrophils had dropped to 0.6. They have to be above 1 to be able to have chemotherapy. So treatment was delayed a second day. On day three his blood neutrophils had dropped further to 0.5 so we were discharged from the hospital and advised to go home and wait for them to improve. Before we went home though, the doctor and dietitian came to chat about Ryan's nausea and lack of gastrostomy feeding. They had a few ideas, but they wanted to make only one change at a time so they know what worked or what did not. A different anti-sickness medication, a different type of feed, they also wanted to start a diuretic and a laxative as his gut is not working as well as it should. We had a