Day 99 (course 2b day 4)

I'm still here... sorry we didn't post yesterday.. we had an interesting day...

Mom woke up yesterday feeling not as good as usual, but not terrible either.  she looked a little flush, but her temperature stayed around normal so we didn't think there was anything wrong.  dad called around 9 and said he was on his way, so we knew we had to get moving a little earlier than mom likes.. when we went to the living room, i took her temp again and it shot up to 100.6... that's not so good.  we're supposed to go to the emergency room if her temp is above 100.4.  mom tried convincing me that it was just because she was bundled up like an eskimo, so we took all the blankets off, took away her rice bag and waited 10 minutes... her temp did drop to 99.3... then she tried chugging cold water and taking her temp again.. i didn't fall for that one.. 10 minutes later her temp was back up to 100.5 so I called the clinic.  they said they wanted to see her, they were very busy, but as soon as a room opened they'd call back and we could go over.  That was 11:25... I knew dad was only 30 minutes away so we just sat tight and waited for the clinic to call back... and waited... and waited...... finally at 3:00 we got the call to come right over, they were ready for us.. thank god this isn't an emergency, we thought... oh wait.. they told us it was.. nevermind...

3:05: at the clinic... we checked in, evidently they didn't know they had a room ready for us because we didn't get called in until after 4:00.  Blood cultures and labs were drawn and sent in around 4:30, which we knew meant we wouldn't have results until at least 5:30... we were right.. around 5:45 they came back and said they were bringing some tylenol in and Dr. Griffiths would be right in... that was a bright spot in our day.  She's always so compassionate, genuinely interested and caring when we see her.  she said mom's labs looked to be alright, and that we did the right thing by bringing her in, but as long as she's not neutropenic, we didn't need to bring her back in unless her temp went above 101.  She explained that the low grade fever could be a side effect of the chemo shot she gets, and as long as the fever isn't accompanied by cough, chills, aches etc, she's fine.. whew!  we were also told that because she had her labs done then, she didn't need to come for her early thursday appointment.. that made mom happy!  So now she's off until saturday. 

by the time we saw Dr. Griffiths and had mom's pic line bandages and caps changed, it was almost 7pm!  I decided to stay to help get mom settled as dad ran out to walgreens to get some prescribed pedialyte..

we're all good here today, mom feels pretty good and she's happy she was able to sleep in till almost 10! 

the rest of the day will bring some lounging, some walking and stair stepping, and probably some food tv and fox news..

I'm shoving off shortly... it was a good, at times interesting, visit and mom's still looking so strong and healthy.  it always makes it so much easier to leave when I can see for myself how good she looks. 

that's it for now.. hopefully dad will update later!

love.