Day 8 (Morning after a rough day)

Wednesday January 25, 2011

Sorry I did not blog last night!! I know everyone keeps saying they check the same time every night...so I wanted to be less predictable and throw you all off! (Aka...I passed out in the chair) Now I have even more things to share between yesterday and this morning.

Yesterday was a rough day for Carl. Found out that because of the medicine that he is on his blood sugar has sky rocketed. When they were trying to draw blood his Picc line in his arm was not working for them (Because of the sugar levels).  He was on an insulin drip all night long. He now is getting blood sugar medication and insulin in the morning and then at meals. This was a killer for Carl last night because for the first time in a while he was starving and kept wanting to eat, unfortunately he could not eat a ton with his sugar levels up so high.

He was complaining about his ear feeling like it was going to pop (Like driving through the mountains) and the fact he was peeing a TON and very thirsty. Well to find out it was all because of the sugar levels. So after they got him stabilized he started to feel better.

His Lumbar Puncture (Spinal Tap) and Bone Marrow test was moved to tomorrow...during the bone marrow they will be testing for remission already! Today is a chemo day again, he is getting the red stuff, takes about 30 minutes for that through an IV.

With his blood sugar levels being so low he was being tested every hour through the night. Tonight he is getting platelets 18 pack (This is 3 bags of it) starting at 8pm. Which means they will be in the room all night again checking on him and waking him up. So hopefully today is a day of sleeping!! There was not a lot of that last night, and there will not be a lot of that tonight either.

The Doctor was in at 5:30am this morning, trying to make her rounds before her 7:30 meetings. She told us because of his blood sugar levels not being 100% controlled yet we will probably not be going home this week.

Tomorrow is the official 2 weeks that we have been here...CAN NOT BELIEVE IT!!