Just when we thought things we’re a little normal, yesterday afternoon turned out to be anything but normal. I met Sam at the doctor office for his chemo session at 3:00. It was suppose to be a 30 minute session with a quick chat with the oncologist. Turns out, Sam failed a portion of his breathing test prior to the chemo session last week, and now they’ve given him 2 doses of bleo, which has strong lung side effects. They immediately sent us down to radiology where he had a lung scan, looking for blood clots or any illness that may have gone into his lungs. The good news is that they didn’t find anything. The bad news is that he immediately had some kind of reaction to the contract from the scan and sat in the waiting area for the results, shivering. He became very nauseous and got sick in the restroom. I drove him home, he immediately went to bed. Soon after he asked me to take his temperature, he wasn’t feeling right. His temperature was above the 100.5 so I called the oncologist office as instructed. As I was on the phone, Sam blacked out and hit his head on the nightstand. Needless to say, the oncologist sent us back to the Parker hospital. At this point GG and Papa brought the girls home and Papa went to the hospital with us, GG stayed with the girls. We were at the hospital until midnight on the nose. They drew what seemed like ALL of his blood, and gave him fluids as he became dehydrated after being sick earlier. All the blood tests came back ok, but they noticed the increased heart rate too (the portion of the breathing test he failed).
Anyway, he has another scan at 3:00 today to follow up with this increased heart rate to get to the bottom of it. It’s too taxing on his heart and they need to find out what’s going on. He’s feeling ok right now, but didn’t make it to work. He’s still pretty fatigued and is definitely tired of being a pin cushion. He’s bruised all over.
Well, that’s the latest news, never a dull moment.
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