Saturday, May 15, 2010

Fever

I have some moments until I need to recheck his temperature so I didn't know what to do other than update. He is completely out of it now, which is probably a blessing. He's had 2 doses of morphine and I just pray he isn't in any pain.

We can't seem to get his fever down....it is up to 104.3 last check. The pharmacy delivered naproxen cream earlier when I was out and Patty applied it to his wrists. That seemed like it was getting the fever down a bit, but the nurse said to go ahead and give up to 2 more Tylenol doses if needed. We gave one, and I just inserted the second. He was 104.3 before the Tylenol so I hope it helps some. I'm going to wait a few minutes and see.

We slept from 10:30 to 11:30, up for meds, 11:30 to 12:30, up for more, and I feel guilty for being tired. My mother hasn't been to bed since she woke up Friday morning. We can't convince her to do so, and I don't know that I can blame her, although I worry about her too. In reality, she's probably the strongest of us all.

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