Sunday, October 4, 2009

We got back home last night from the hospital. Chemo was pretty uneventful, but David did start to run a low grade fever yesterday around 10am. The fever slowly started to climb until around 2pm when it mysteriously broke. This at least allowed us to be discharged. We were thankful to come home since David (and thus Daddy and Mommy) rests much better at home in our own beds.

Even though the fever was gone, it was still easily apparent that he wasn't feeling his normal self. He was very tired and clingy even when we got home, so after a late night bath, he spent some time in the bed with us while Rob read us a story. He did finally go back into his own crib, but woke up around 4am and spent a little more time in the big bed. I think he knew that he wasn't feeling right, and he was also just a little scared of all the big changes and needed the reassurance that Rob and I weren't going to be leaving him by himself.

This morning, he was ok for some time and he was enjoying playing with his kids. But then again around 9:30/10am, he started to run another low grade fever. He was also throwing up and then extremely sleepy. He is sleeping peacefully right now, and his fever seems to have leveled out at aroun 99.6 degrees. If it increases, we will have to take him back to the hospital and likely they will have to give him some really strong antibiotics to make sure that he's not fighting a bacterial infection.

I'm hoping that he will be able to eat a little when he wakes up. He only ate a few bites of oatmeal this morning. We are also going to have to find something that he can keep down in the fluid department.

I'll keep you all updated on his progress. Thank you again for all your prayers!

-Kim

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