It's 3:00 pm and we just got back from 5 ½ hours at the emergency room. At 7:15 am as I was getting up for church, Sam said that he didn’t want me to go cause he wasn’t sure what was going to happen to him. At 3:15 am, he vomited and again at 7:30 am. So we called the Cancer Center and spoke with Dr. Osborn who just happened to be on call. She suggested that we consider the ER if he didn’t feel better. Well, knowing Sam, just the fact that he was considering the hospital told me that we should have already left. He’s not the type to run off to the hospital with sore eyelashes, if you know what I mean.
As it turns out, he missed three doses of his pain medication yesterday and that (causes nausea) in addition to the chemo (which causes nausea) and being dehydrated caused him to feel very bad, indeed. Fortunately, the blood work-up was okay; they did an X-ray of his stomach to make sure there was no blockages (there wasn’t); but he was dehydrated and so they gave him 2 bags (1000 ml each) of sodium chloride. We left the hospital at 2:45 pm.
I was able to coax Sam to take one feeding and he’s still wiped out, but resting comfortably now. Thank God!
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