How Jacob spent his day on his first day of High School 9th grade year 2011.
Monday August 22, 2011 should have been Jacob's first day as a ninth grader at Albion Middle School. Instead, he rested in his hospital room while receiving chemo for the 6th day to kill all the bone marrow in his body.
Monday was rough for him because it was the first day that he really started feeling the pain and effects of the chemo. On this day, the nurse installed a new pump to his IV pole that dispenses pain medicine for him whenever he pushes a button on his little remote in his bed. The pump also dispenses a "continuous" dose to him all the time just too keep him comfortable and the button is for whenever that continuous dose is not quite enough. It took another day or so to get the dosing right (they started it out too high and he slept most of the day and got itchy all over plus a couple other side effects that I won't mention) They seem to have figured out the right dose now as he's not too sleepy and he rates his pain at a "5" (on a scale of 1 - 10)
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