Fevers?!?!

When I came home from work and as we were starting to eat dinner, J kept calling for Mom to come.  After a couple trips upstairs, Mom sent me up to look at him because his heart was racing.  He described an odd sensation where everything seemed to be moving faster than it really was.  He was more sensitive to sound.  He didn't like how he was feeling.  I used our thermometer and consistently measured 102.  Mom came back and measured 101.  His hands were cold and blood flow in the fingers was slow (nice little test is to push the blood out of the skin at the end of the finger by squeezing it between your fingers and see how fast the color comes back, try it on yourself).  We called the oncologist and were instructed to come into the hospital.  I took a moment to place Emla cream on the port site (score one for thinking ahead).  Mom and I both snuck extra mouthfuls of food (delicious big cookie for dessert tonight).

They took his temperature at the hospital.  100.2!  That was all!  Needed a little validation, and he's barely warm when we get there (yes it's embarrassing for me to be the panicky parent that always adds two or three degrees to my child's temperature).  His heart has been racing, but his blood pressure has held up fine.  He had blood cultures drawn and he had his nose cultured for flu.  He was started on IV fluids and antibiotics.  And now we are waiting.  And hoping.  And praying.

His heart rate continues to be super fast.  His breathing is pretty rapid.  He suddenly threw up.  He had the chills.  Rechecked his temperature:  99.6.  He had a headache.  Looks like a long night ahead of us.  Better that we are in the hospital than at home, I think.