Remember the other day when I wrote how waiting for Mom to start to feel better was a bit like grass growing. Well, the grass is growing and mom is feeling a little better every day, but I think we might have grown a weed...
Mom has had a persistant cough since... well, since she got her stem cells. In the last few days the cough passed persistant and began down right annoying. We haven't been terribly worried since a cough can be a side effect of her chemo, but we have been watching it closely. Yesterday morning, Daddy could tell that Mom just wasn't feeling as well as she had been and her cough was getting worse. There were scheduled to go into the hospital just to have her iv lines flushed, but they weren't scheduled to see the doctor until Friday.
However, after Daddy checked Mom's temp and discovered she had fever, they immediately called the doctor who told them to come on down. A chest x-ray later, we discovered that mom was trying to develop pneumonia but they caught it in time. They gave her an antibiotic, as well as a shot to boost her white cell production . She is already feeling much better, and that weed is now under control.
We are just settling back to watch some more grass grow.
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