Hospital Stay

Monday night I was put in the hospital because I had a temperature of 100.8. Normally a temperature like this would not be to alarming or required a hospital stay. However, when you go through chemo any temperature over 100.4, you are supposed to call your doctors and check to see if you need to come into the hospital. The reason why is because your body had no white blood cells to fight off any disease, infection, or virus. Chemo kills all of your blood cells. So if you are starting a low grade fever the doctors want you to head to the hospital so they can keep in eye on you. That way if they find out you are sick they can give you medicine in the hospital to help fight it off.

Saturday through Monday I was feeling awful. At night I would get a low grade fever and it was hard for me to eat and sleep. I was so happy when I was able to go the hospital on Monday so I could figure out what was wrong! Being in the hospital did bring back some bad memories. Last time I was sleeping at a hospital was right after I had my major surgery. That was not a pleasant time for me. That being said my dad was out of the country on a business trip when I went to the hospital, so it took a while for him to know what was going on. I had wished he was home so he could be with me while I was there.

My mom and I arrived at the hospital very late at night. It was around 10:30-11 when we finally got settled in our rooms. I had to get an IV in my arm and I was really worried because I know my veins were not going to cooperate. It wasn't until a little past 12 when my nurses came in my room to try to put in IV in. I had to wind up getting stuck 6 times before they called a specialist in to find a good vein that would work. My arms hurt so much after and it made me want to go home even more! After my IV was in, I was able to get a couple hours of sleep.

Early in the morning I had a bunch of different people come in and get my blood to run tests to see what was going on. Around 11:30am on Wednesday a doctor came in and gave me an update. He told me how he didn't think I was sick at all and how he thinks what happened was I got too dehydrated. He also mentioned how the shot I had to get after chemo, to make my bones produce more blood cells, could have caused my fevers. Low fevers is one of the side effects to the shot. He told me how the hospital was going to watch me one more night just to make sure and I would be able to go home on Thursday.

This made me kind of sad because I wanted to go home that day. I was already missing my bed and not having to drag around an IV machine when ever I wanted to go somewhere. I was also missing food that wasn't healthy and had salt and sugar in it! Haha. Everything at the Hospital was too healthy for my liking.

I do believe God was listening to my prayers because later on that day my actual doctor came in and told me I was able to go home. He told me I was more likely to get sick staying at the hospital then I would being at home. I was so happy to be back home and be able to sleep in my own bed without an IV in my arm :)

Cute Stingray that was waiting for me on my Hospital bed!