Last night after a wonderful supper with Uncle Don and Aunt Charlotte, Ryan had some shivers and so he took his temperature and was running a low grade fever. He called the oncology doctor on call and the doctor just told him to follow protocol - if the fever gets to be over 100.5 then he needs to report to the ER at Miami Valley. After putting Aubrey to bed, he took his temperature again, it was 102. He did not want to return to the hospital, so he continued taking his temperature for about 5 minutes, but it didn't change.
By the time we made it to Miami Valley, he was complaining of back pain and could hardly stand up. They took him back and took blood and x-rays and a CT scan. He's got backed up bowels and was still running a fever, which they don't know the cause of yet, so they admitted him at about 4:30 this morning. He was still running a fever this morning, but when the nurse was in a little while ago the temp was down to 97.7. He had some chills prior to her coming in, so maybe the fever has broke. That would be an answered prayer. We are supposed to go to Columbus on Tuesday and so Ryan's a little disappointed that this might back things up (no pun intended :), but hopefully he'll be able to use the bathroom and if his temperature stay down maybe they'll send him home tomorrow so we can still make his appointment.
We continue to be blessed by your gifts and prayers and ask that you pray that Ryan is able to use the bathroom soon and relieve the pain he's feeling. He's also coughing but they said that his lungs looked good on the x-ray they took last night.
-A
Ryan, we have been trying to post on your site for some time, but have been unsuccessful. So we will try again. We will be admitted to The James on the 12th. So we are right behind you.
ReplyDeleteOur love and encouragement. God always has a good plan.
Jerry Armstrong