Saturday, October 14th – 10:00am

It’s been a long night. Kerrie’s temp kept rising… 100 at 10:30pm, 101.1 at 11:00pm… 102.3 at 2:00am

I called Mom, around 10:30pm, to let her know what was going on and that they were doing chest x-rays and another blood culture. The blood culture, from a few days ago, showed positive for SOMETHING in Kerrie’s blood, but I’m not exactly sure what that means. Because of the results of the previous blood culture, they had started her on antiobitics yesterday, but her temperature was still rising.

I let the nurse know I needed the results of the x-rays as soon as they had them, since our Mom was worrying at home, and asked that she wake me up as soon as they had them. Kerrie was feeling a little better around 11:30pm, but the temp was still there.. still rising..and I promised to call mom if anything changed. I’m sure she didn’t get any more sleep than we did.

Kerrie didn’t sleep last night, and she was pretty upset about it. She knows sleep will be difficult once they start the new chemo today, so I am hoping she’ll at least be able to get an hour at a time..

Still no results of the x-rays, when I left at 7:30am, so I guess no news is good news. Kerrie looked so frail this morning that I didn’t want to leave her.. but had to go back to Mom’s for my breakfast of Nupegeon Shots. MMM… what a way to start the day.

Two days of shots down… three to go. Definately feeling some pain in the lower back, shoulders and legs today. If this is what it feels like at day two can’t wait to see what it feels like at day five!

Mom’s gone to the hospital to be with Kerrie, while I clean up and take care of a few things at her house.. then I’ll be going back to the hospital in a little while.

Dad and Joyce are coming in for the weekend, and Ron will be down at the hospital today. It’s just too bad she doesn’t get more visitors when she’s feeling good.

I’ll do my best to keep the updates coming over the next few days, but typing in already becoming a little difficult.

I REALLY need to show Mom how to post on the blog 🙂

Thanks for everyone’s e-mails, posts, thoughts and prayers… and to my friend who sent me his Friday the 13th good luck – I think it probably helped me get through those shots :)  The 14th is MY lucky day, so we should have lots of good luck this weekend.

 

Jenn