In the Hospital

We are officially admitted (05-13-09). We are at 430 B West. This is the same floor where we were the last time. But, on the West side where they have the patients with Solid Tumors. There were no available beds on the East wing. There were 3 beds in the room. This was the only available bed at this time. So, I will be the only one staying with Chase tonight.
Chase's fever was really high. The hospital uses a Tempa-dot which is in celcius. The highest temp on the strip is 40.4 celcius. His overnight temp is at 39 to 4o.4 or higher because the strip was all blue. The nurses brought him in the treatment room to try to give the Tylenol. He was screaming & kicking. They tried, but said he's a smart one. Chase was not able to take anything in so they will just do some cooling measures. They gave me cold compacts & ice. We also wet his hair & undressed him the whole night. His fever spiked again by 2ish so we had to give him a bath in the middle of the night. They gave Chase new antibiotics. Cefepime and Vancomycin.

I will try to add more to this post. Finally, there's 2 bars on the wifi connection so I was able to update. I will try to get some sleep while Chase is sleeping. It's 12:15 am now. PLEASE PRAY FOR CHASE!!! DOCTORS ARE STILL UNSURE WHERE THE FEVER IS COMING FROM.

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05-15-09

His fever is still high but not as high as yesterday's. The nurses had to put a feeding tube because of the fluids with contrast he needs to take for his CT scan. We had to put it in because he will not drink it & it was a lot of fluids. He's been crying because they strapped his hands to prevent him from pulling it out. It took them a while to put it in because he was fighting. Also, the night before, we did not sleep. He started crying at around 2ish & did not stop. He kept on saying ALL DONE & was trying to take his PICC line & IV off. All the nurses in 4 West already heard about his famous line - "ALL DONE".