Karen's at the ER right now awaiting a CT scan. She had been extremely tired all week last week with difficulty eating, nausea and dry-heaving and throwing up.
We met with Moriarty last Friday (Good Friday) where they took some blood work. The CBC (complete blood count) showed Karen was badly anemic. Moriarty scheduled a transfusion for Saturday.
Saturday we went back to Overlook for the transfusion. She got two pints over about 6 hours, much longer than expected but they seemed to help. On Sunday she woke up with a bad pain in her right side, near where the previous drain had been placed. She said it felt like a muscle pain but a dose of fairly stout pain medication was only partially effective.
Early this morning (I think 4AM) (Sunday night) she woke up with severe pain in her side. From a scale of 1 through 10 it was a 10. Karen's got a pretty high tolerance for pain, a really really high tolerance truth be told. So a 10 for Karen is like a 20 for me. We decided to call her doctors and both calls encouraged her to go to the Emergency Room.
Which brings you all up to date. I'm working from home with the kids and will post more as I hear from her.
-======== UPDATE #1 =============-
Karen has been admitted into Overlook hospital and will remain there at least tonight. She has some fluid between her diaphragm and her lungs. If this requires a surgical procedure to be drained she'll be referred out to St. Barnabas tomorrow.
That's all I have at this point.
Showing posts with label emergency room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergency room. Show all posts
Monday, April 13, 2009
Friday, May 18, 2007
A Trip to the Emergency Room
Karen's been feeling nauseous all week. In addition to chemo the doc's prescribed something called Kitrol(sp?) as well as something called Compozine(sp?).
Tonight, just as Sydney was going to bed Karen's tongue began to swell. I put Syd to bed despite her protests for mommy. 30 mins later Karen's tongue was uncontrollable and she was sounding a lot like a deaf person. Our oncologist had called us back. He suspected an allergic reaction to the nausea meds and sure enough he was right.
So we're sitting here in the emergency room whilst Karen gets an IV of Pepcid, Benadryl (sp?) and fluids. Her tongue is getting back to normal and hopefully she'll be home within a few hours.
Tonight, just as Sydney was going to bed Karen's tongue began to swell. I put Syd to bed despite her protests for mommy. 30 mins later Karen's tongue was uncontrollable and she was sounding a lot like a deaf person. Our oncologist had called us back. He suspected an allergic reaction to the nausea meds and sure enough he was right.
So we're sitting here in the emergency room whilst Karen gets an IV of Pepcid, Benadryl (sp?) and fluids. Her tongue is getting back to normal and hopefully she'll be home within a few hours.
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