October Monday 9th 2017 was Elijah's first day of Chemotherapy. His regime was three days of Chemo. The first day he does Etoposide for an hour. With in the first 10 minutes his whole body was flushed with heat. His body's natural response to a chemical. Then after that one is done. Cisplatin was administered for 6 hours. The next two days was Etoposide each day for one hour. At this time I was also doing CBD. It was ok with the Oncologist. By day three he was feeling some numbness and tingling in his fingers and toes. That went away with in a few hours. We left the hospital, and drove home.

By Sunday day 5 he didn't quite feel like eating much. He went to lay down and coluldn't sleep. He had dry mouth. He went to use the bathroom, he was walking very slowly. I had him to drink some coconut water (which I knew has natural electrolytes) When he tried to get up and walk out of the bathroom he needed help. Nim came in and helped me with him. Elijah wanted to go down to the ground. So we helped him down. He felt so week. He looked grey. I could feel the chemicals in his body. It was so scary. I called up to the Oncologist on call. She said to take him to the Hospital (Riverbend)

By the time we got there Elijah was feeling better. I think he needed Electrolytes. He was dehydrated and needed more fluids. One of  Cisplatin's side effects that Elijah had dehydration.  They wanted us to stay over night to watch him.

In the morning they had him do an MRI. Since we where now on hospital time I couldn't give him his nausea meds. Elijah was feeling sick and ended up throwing up several times. Did a chest X-ray. MRI came back good. Waiting to see what the Oncologist wants to do. So we had to stay another night. More blood work in the morning.

As I sat there doing research I read about Cisplatin. I read a case study about a man on Cisplatin, and how he had a drastic heart rate change from a laying down position to a standing one. That is what was happening to Elijah. They monitored him laying down, sitting, and standing. The same thing was happening. He was dropping 30 points.  Also how CBD would enhance the Cisplatin effects. I wondered if the Oncologist really had thought it all through. I know I gave her a list of all the things I was hoping to give him. So I thought she would of known about this.

Elijah noticed he had a bad headache, lightheaded, dizziness and felt cold. He was having some side effects from the Zofran. Also figured out that Ativan wasn't a good match either. He was feeling insomnia, drowsiness, and dizziness. I read that the Cabanoid receptors fill in with the CBD . If you add Zofran or Ativan those medicines can go into the receptor sites. Because the CBD is already there in those sites. So the medicines hang out in your system longer, just floating around. So much learned after this first experience of Chemo, nausea medicines and CBD. They finally sent us home after day 5.