A Small Bump

(We hope its small, anyway). Yesterday, Ryan spent a few hours at Wayne Hospital getting red blood and platelets so that he wouldn't have to be there over the holiday weekend, so much for that idea! When we left last night, he was running a low grade fever. The nurse said just to watch it. Ryan took 1 tylenol and it was down to 98 by a couple hours later.

When he checked it this morning, it was up too 100.3. So we got ready and went on into Greenville to get his blood drawn for labs. While there, his temperature went up a little higher and they called Dr. Marinella. He wanted labs drawn to test for cultures and also wanted him admitted. Dr. Marinella gave us a choice where to be admitted and so we chose to just stay at Wayne since they could get antibiotics started right away and its closer too home.

They got him to a room and his temperature spiked up to 103 point something. They brought in a machine to cool him down and his temp came down some, but he got really cold lying on the blanket used to cool him. They turned the machine off.

Right before I was ready to leave they checked his temp again - 105.2 - way too high. They turned the machine back on and I called just a few minutes ago. His temp has fallen to 102.7 (I think she said, 102. something) and he was resting and not shivering like he was before. The first time they had it one, he couldn't sleep. It is a good sign that he's sleeping now.

Please pray that his temp drops to normal and that when they turn the machine off that it doesn't spike again. We're believing that he doesn't have an infection and that his body is just so low on white blood cells that is the reason that he's spiking the temp. That would be he could probably come back home on Sunday, otherwise, we might be heading to Miami Valley earlier that we had planned.

Please also pray for me. The last few weeks have really been getting to me. July is here and there were things we had planned to do this summer that we're not getting to do and I'm ready for our house to be finished and it isn't moving as quickly as I would like. Nothing majorly horrible, I'm just ready for this to be over so we can do normal things for a while.

-A