Well Isabelle has been having fever, head aches, body aches, fatigue, and nausia for the past few days. We originally thought the head aches were from her RBC being so low, which is why they transfused her earlier than they were going to. (red blood count) Yesterday on the way to the clinic, she threw up all over herself. Abel did not have a change of clothes, wipes, or anything. He stopped at Walgreens and bought wipes and an extra large tshirt to put her in while he cleaned up the mess. He broke our umbrella stroller because when he went to leave he backed up and ran over it, lol. I wish I was there to see it. At the clinic Abel said Isabelle seemed to be feeling fine, no fever or anything. They needed to give her a second dose of antibiotics since she had been having a fever. (Just as a precaution) Abel got home at 1 and left for work around 1:30.
As soon as he left Isabelle was in quite a bit of head pain. She just wanted to lay down and whenever she moved she would cry and grab her head in pain. I checked her temp and there was no fever. I gave her some tylenol and an hour later I checked her temp. and she had a low-grade fever. The tylenol also did not seem to do anything for the pain because she was still having a lot of it. I called the doctor and she told me that I should take her to the ER as a precaution since she was having, so much head pain and fever. Abel came home from work to help me. I got to the hospital around 7, Isabelle threw up in the car, so I had to change her. She was having a hard time standing because her legs were in pain, her head was in pain, and she was wobbly. They put us back in the childrens waiting area, which she is NOT supposed to be in. The nurse was like can you guys wait here for a couple minutes. I was like no its not really ok, I don't want her in here. The nurse ran out and they moved everyone around in the ER to get us a room by ourselves. I don't know how well the room was cleaned with all the hassle, but I can only do so much. The nurse we had was an idiot and was driving me crazy. When it was time for Isabelle to get her night chemo the nurse just squirted it back into her throat and she immidiatly threw up. (We had to give it to her again, we waited a half an hour)
The doctor on the ER side said they spoke with the oncology doctor on call and they wanted to keep us overnight for observation since she had been throwing up. The throwing up in the ER was completely the dumb nurses fault. She did have a fever all night. It got up to 102.3 and thats with her being pumped with tylenol every 4 hours. We were moved at around 11 to the oncology side and Isabelle had to be woken up for height, weight, and a bunch of other things that they were supposed to do while we were down in the ER, but didn't. She cried the whole time until her special male nurse Amil came in to do blood pressure. As soon as she saw him, she started getting giggly. He asked her if he could take her bp on her arm and she giggled, "no you have to do it on my leg." She then put the sheet over her legs and was like, "you can't find my leg, you can't find my leg, giggling." When he put it on her she started giggling that it tickled. It was sooo funny how she went from being dead tired and cranky to flirting.
This morning she woke up with a low-grade fever of 100.3. About 10 am she started feeling really good and she started running around. When the dr on call cal in, Dr. Chang, she practically sat on his knee and was telling him what he needed to check on her. He said she looked good to go and that it was probably just a reaction from the ARAC chemo. With cancer patients they have to always assume the worse and they gave her another dose of antibiotics before we were allowed to leave. It took forever to discharge her and as soon as we got home, around 2, she wasn't feeling good again. I gave her more tylenol. They said call if she gets a fever again because I may have to bring her back. We will see how the night goes.
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