Today we arrived at the hospital for Joe's appointments with his oncologist. Jeanne (Joe's mom) and Jake Ferriera were at the hospital when we arrived. The oncologist gave us good and bad news. The good news is that no cancer was found in the brain and his blood levels were completely normal. The bad news, Joe can't go home until he gets clearance from the oncologist. This week he has a high rish of spiking fevers and catching infections. They call it the danger week. Due to all the chemo that he had over the past week his blood levels will eventually go down and he could possibly spike a high fever. With that being said he is doing amazing and they are hoping that this won't happen. However, because the oncologist has not spoken to the Vineyard hospital about what procedures they have in place, they are not comfortable with him going home yet. I feel bad because I think he was looking forward to going home and spending time with his family. He has expressed over this past week that he is frusterated cause he feels fine. He also just hates the unknowns. After the oncologist appointment we headed down to the infusion center for his chemo. Unlike, the previous week today was only a half hour (compared to the 5 hours last week). He just had to get one drug, drug B I call it. Kara, stopped by quickly again and caught up. It is nice to have visitors just makes the time go by quicker. After treatment, we headed off to lunch. We both ate too much and came home and crashed. We are done until next Monday! However, Joe kind of crashed tonight. He feels achy and felt that a fever was coming on. The oncologist told us to not be surprised if he spiked a fever but I think he is just scared of the unknown. I hate not knowing what he is feeling. He can be soooo stubborn. However, he is getting better with telling me what is going on in that big head of his. I will update you next week or if anything happens in the meantime.
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