Tonight Sebastian was admitted for the next chemo treatment, which will start tomorrow. He will be hooked up to an IV to flush fluids through him, and the chemo treatment will begin tomorrow. It involves high dose methotrexate through the IV, and intrathecal methotrexate (injected into the spine) administered tomorrow. The earliest we will get out of the hospital is Thursday, but it could last up to Saturday. The reason we have to stay inpatient is because Sebastian needs to receive lots of fluids to make sure the drug is "flushed" out. This inpatient stay is normal routine, and will happen every other week over the next 8 weeks.
I dropped Michi and Sebastian off at the hospital tonight, and came home with Stella. Tomorrow I will go in to be in the hospital the whole day so Michi can go to work, and then we will switch "shifts" again. Michi's mom will also come to Vienna tomorrow night to help out, and to stay some time in the hospital so Michi and I can go out for our anniversary on Wednesday - four years and still going strong!
Sebastian is doing quite well, is in good spirits, and has no noticeable side effects right now, except the normal low resistance to infection as seen in his blood counts. Let's hope that the next phase will not be as hard on him as the first four weeks.
Here are some pictures from the last week.
