Fever Struck

Well, today has probably been the worst day that Ryan's had since he's been at OSU, besides all the scarlet and gray that he endures each day :) He woke up around 4 o'clock this morning with pain in his throat because his pain pump was out of morphine. It took about 45 minutes to get that going again and then he had a nosebleed and so he had to get platelets. He said it was about 6:30 when he got to sleep again and then I called him on the way to work this morning at 7:30. He said he stayed up most of the day and he ate all his meals, but this afternoon around 4:30 or so he got a fever. It was 100.5 when he called me at 5:30, I'm not sure what it was tonight; they hadn't taken it again when we were there. They started him on two antibiotics, took blood and urine cultures, and took a chest x-ray. They think that the fever could be caused from his mouth sores, but we won't really know for sure for 2 to 3 days when the cultures come back.

Ryan did get to visit with Aubrey for about an hour tonight. We didn't think that he'd be able to see her, but since he was allowed to be out walking in the halls we figured he was allowed to see Aubrey and the nurses said it was ok. She we visited and took a walk around the 3rd floor with him and then we headed to the apartment. She is still scared of him a little when she sees him in his mask, but he has to wear it all the time now because his counts are so low. I keep thinking she'll get used to it, but it hasn't happened yet.

Please pray that the fever goes away quickly and that it turns out to be from his mouth sores and not something else. Please also pray that his mouth and throat will begin to feel better and that his counts will recover on the quicker end of the spectrum and not the later.

-A