Ken and I are completely surprised that we are back in the Univ of Colo hospital. I brought him in about 6:30 tonight. He has had a tough few days. He didn't work at all this week. Just couldn't get up the energy. I have been watching him get worse and worse. We thought it was just the normal hiccups and nausea that follows. And I thought he was depressed from being so sick and worried about his pet scan next Thurs. But this morning his fever was 99.9 and at 3:30 it was 102.9. We called the hospital to see if he could take tylenol and they said to come in. We were just going to give him tylenol and see what happens. I am so thankful they wanted us to bring him in. When we got here, his temp was down, but his blood pressure was 56/44. They immediately got him started on fluids and it came up to 66/50. Then they told us they would watch it for 30 min and call his oncologist. If it didn't come up more, they were putting him in intensive care. But it came up to 92/66. So they aren't moving him to ICU. They are watching him here. He has had his 3rd bag of fluid and 2 different antiboitics in 2 hours. They have 2 more bags of fluid ready to go. He must have been pretty dehydrated. He was trying to drink, but couldn't with all the hiccups. Guess what, they have stopped. Once we got on the road to Denver, they stopped. Guess they were just trying to tell us to get help. They just came and took a chest xray. They said his lungs didn't sound very clear. That is scary. They said it sounded like he wasn't getting them fully expanded, but his oxygen level was great at 95%. So not sure. Glad the xray results don't take long. We should know something soon on that. The blood cultures will take about 24 hours to give us results. So we may not know until tomorrow night what is causing this. They think it is an infection that he caught here last week.
And I have a huge infection on my leg. I noticed it Thurs night. I thought it was just a rash, but I showed it to Ken's doctor tonight, just cause he wanted to know what all we had done this week and what was different. I didn't think much about it, but it does look worse. He said it looks like cellulitis. Which could have been caused by a staff infection or a bug bite. I hope I can get a hold of my regular doctor tomorrow. The doc here wants me on antibiotics by tomorrow.
So now he sleeps. Ken is sleeping well, so I am going to try to lay down and get some sleep as well. After I ask the doc about his xrays. At least the doc has plopped himself outside Ken's room and said he would be working from that desk all night. Scares me, because it means Ken is in serious trouble. But makes me happy that they are watching him so close. I'll keep you posted. God Bless You. Bev
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