Monday night 8 p.m., Lyric started a fever with a headache. I called the on call Oncologist and she told me to bring him in. Lyric was NOT happy, and neither was I. There were no beds in the ward so we had to go to Emerg... of course the worst place for him. We stayed overnight, I slept in a chair, and we ended up in the ward at 5 p.m. the next day.
They did all the swabs and tests and everything came back negative. He had very low platelets and hemoglobin, almost non existent which could start a fever with headache. But with neutropenic kids they don't know for sure so they treated him for 48 hours of IV antibiotics and waited 24 hours to see if the fever returned. Which it didn't. I KNEW he was fine right from the start... he had no symptoms of any kind. So finally this afternoon today they let us go home.. hesitantly. The can be over protective, which is good I guess... but also not good. It's like chaperoning your kid to their first dance.. leave me alone! I said worse case scenario, we come back!!
Other than that, my parents are watching the kids for a couple days while I rest. I am tired.. and have reached my limit. When he came down with the fever, I just was not ready to go back yet. I was so exhausted from spending the week cleaning, organizing, dealing with the kids, fundraiser that I hadn't taken time to rest. But, I had no choice and had to go.. so the last few days have been quite rough on me.. and my adrenal fatigue has returned a bit. So I plan to take some time for me... to ground myself again and gain more energy to get through these last couple months. I need this to be a good parent and caregiver to my kids.. especially Lyric.
Avery is doing well, she is really starting to miss me.. I feel terrible. But I had a good talk with her tonight and told her it's going to be over soon and I have so many things I want to do with her.. I will make it up to her. When I am home (with the exception of the next couple days..) I spend oodles of time doing things with her.
And to my surprise, I have not been attacked anymore about getting that godforsaken flu shot. I think they now understand my beliefs.
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I know it is hard Sarah but you are right. Taking sometime to rest and rejuvenate yourself will be more helpful to the kids than you know... Enjoy your relaxing weekend and I hope that everything stays good.
ReplyDeleteAshley C
I'm really glad you'll have a few days for yourself. It's so important being that you're pretty much the sole caregiver. You are already super woman but even super woman needs a bit of rest and time for herself!!!! I'm glad you're getting that opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI'm also glad that Lyric is well and that the hospital stay was a short one. I hope that's it until the next round of chemo!
Ave is so great...she's holding up better than I would in the same situation!!!!
Thinking of all of you. xo
So glad you are finally getting a chance to rest.
ReplyDeleteSending all my thoughts and wishes to you and your family <3
(((HUGS))))
Jenn R