Day 36 Post Transplant

What a night!

Our Wednesday evening started with Adele not feeling very good at supper, after sleeping since she got home from the rituxan treatment. The benadryl they give before the treatment wipes her out for the day. After I made and cleaned up supper (she was in no shape to do either) we watched "KungFu Panda" by Dreamworks. Good movie, light and very funny at times. I noticed she was more and more uncomfortable while watching and made no effort to enjoy the movie. Something was bothering her, and she could not let it go.

Finally she disappeared for 10 minutes and after coming back downstairs, announced that she had a fever of 99.4F. She also felt chilly all night, even though I keep the house at 73F for her, and she was covered in wool blankets. She decided to take her temp every 15 minutes or so, and watched as the temp went up and up. After calling the on-call oncology doctor, she was told to take her temp every 3 hours and if it stayed at or above 100.4 for any 3 hour period, get to the LGH emergency room. A fitful night, as she decided to take her temp every hour or less, and finally called the doctor again around midnight, with a temp of 100.3F. He again asked her to only take her temp every 3 hours, not as often as she was doing, and we finally got an hour or so of sleep. At least I did.

Around 5:30 she took her temp and it showed 101F, so she called the doctor again, and he said to wait until the office opened and come in to see the doctor. Since I was already up - and dressed to go to the emergency room, I stayed up - kinda - and laid out on the recliner in the den, while listening to news (you did not expect me to watch - did you). At 8:30 she called the doctor's office, and finally got a call back for her to come in at 11:15 this morning.

So she is back in bed, and of course I need to work. I do hope and pray that she stops the worry cycle that she is in, and enjoys what she has been given.

We need prayers again for strength and allowing us to keep our minds on Jesus through out this time.

Thanks - Rick