fever yesterday, admitted to MDACC

MDACC = MD Anderson Cancer Center

Chris starting vomiting again around 12:30 a.m. Saturday morning, he took a nausea pill and that seemed to stop it.  He started vomiting again around 9 in the morning and had severe chills, usually a sign a fever is coming on.

He had a fever of 103.4 around 11 so we went back to the ER at MDACC.  He had blood drawn and was given antibiotics.  At about 6 p.m. we were told the ER dr. had gotten ahold of Dr. Thomas and she said to admit Chris.  At about 9 p.m. he finally got a room up on the 16th floor.  They are quite large nice rooms there.

Part of Chris' mouth has been numb since Tuesday for unknown reasons.  Because of this he has accidentally bitten the inside of his mouth when he attempted to eat on Thursday.  The bites have caused very painful sores that have prevented him from eating.  He drank some Carnation instead breakfast mix around 5 yesterday, the first thing he has eaten and kept down since Thursday morning.  He is very fatigued and has a headache that won't go away.  He is also very itchy for unknown reasons.  He was feeling better when I left last night than he was when we went into the ER.  

Because of his various symptoms they obviously want him to have a brain MRI.  Since he'll have to lay still for about 45 minutes he requires sedation for the MRI (the itching will not let him lay still for that length of time).  There is more planning/scheduling involved when sedation is needed so his brain MRI is scheduled for Thursday mid morning, after his bone marrow biopsy.  

His counts are not low, so his fevers are not due to neutropenia.  There are a lot more questions than answers at this point.  I know we are all anxious to find out more but there may not be may answers until he gets the tests done that he has scheduled for this week.  

Since his hemoglobin was low he did get two units of blood transfused overnight.  

I'm going to catch the shuttle back to the hospital as soon as I'm done with some laundry for him here at the hotel.  I didn't pack a lot of the stuff that he usually has when he has to stay at the hospital, we obviously didn't anticipate him having to be admitted while he was here in Houston.  

I will update the blog as we know more/have more tests results.

Thank you all for your support!