Matt and Gavin playing basketball while waiting for his next blood draw.
Matt, Casey and Gavin went wandering and checked out the UW Children's Hospital.
Gaving learned how to make Uncle Matt's bed go up and down,
pills. He has to take 4 pills of Lapatinib once a day every day. He will have to take MK-2206 every other day. For both pills he has to fast two hour before and two hours after. Matt has started a routine of eating supper then waiting two hours and taking his pills, watch a movie then go to bed a little while later. They said all his labs came back good.
Today Matt's nephew, Gavin came to keep him company for a while at the hospital. Matt got his Lapatinib at 8:58 this morning. They have to take blood draws at 8:58,9:28, 10:58, 12:58, 2;58, 4:58 and 8:58pm. Then he has the evening and night and they take the last blood draw at 8:58 Friday morning. Of coarse during the night they check on him and take his vital signs and make sure he is doing well with the Lapatinib.
Then Matt will do this for a week and then he has his last hospital stay on be August 17. They want to check how he is doing with both drugs. They will ask a lot of questions to see if anything change with Matt. They will ask how is he eating, if anything has changed with his bowls, if he had any pain and anything else that might be different than usual. They will keep him on the same regiment of taking his pills and doing all the blood draws with a few extra draws and they will do an EKG to make sure his heart is still working at the baseline EKG he took two weeks ago before he started the clinical trial. If Matt continues to do good he can continue to take these drugs and hopefully they will shrink his cancer that is in his body.
Thank you for your continue prayers for Matthew. He continues to be strong and smiling a lot!
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