What a night!! Sarah was really sick almost as soon as the Methotrexate went up, and it caught us by surprise a bit as she coped really well during her last cycle and felt fine all the way through - maybe her resistance has dropped a bit with the 5 week gap between treatments. She got the shivers, and complained about being freezing cold, although I was really hot! I managed to persuade her to have Nozinan, which is a good antisickness drug which knocks her out usually, and works wonders - she went straight to sleep, but was fitfull, and really not settled. Bethan, Sarahs favourite nurse, took her temperature and blood pressure around midnight, and her heart rate was high and her temperature was 38.4.
38 degrees and neutropenic (when you have no immune system to fight infection) is not good news, so they left it half an hour and took it again and it was still 38 degrees despite me removing 2 blankets, and her dressing gown!! They therefore started her on antibiotics straight away, no messing around! They also took blood samples and cultures to test for bugs growing - a bit scary as we have come this far without experiencing any of these dramas!!
However, although we had some stroppy trips onto the bedpan during the night, because she was tired and wobbly due to the drugs, she wasn't sick any more, and her temperature stablised.The blood they took in the night was also tested, and it turned out that she is no longer neutropenic, so all should be well. They continued the antibiotics today and will do until the blood cultures come back, probably tomorrow, but she's had a good day otherwise! Surprisingly, after all that, she had cheese and onion crisps for breakfast, followed by an orange club, and beans on toast for lunch - she followed that with 2 naan bread for tea, dipped in my chicken tikka sauce (not my idea I can tell you!!!) and an orange. She's been in the playroom twice today and had a nice visit from Auntie Janice and Uncle Mike. She got seen by the physio who gave her a fluffy boot to wear to keep her ankle straight, and she managed to get the bend on the leg machine up to 60 degrees(nasty Auntie Janice cranked it up high while she was playing on her Wii with Uncle Mike and she wasn't thinking about it!!) It didn't last for long once she noticed, but she was proud enough of herself to tell the physio when she came back on the ward later! Tomorrow she is going down to the gym - who knows what she will acheive down there!! Fingers crossed for a decent nights sleep at last.................
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