Thursday July 16th....10PM Update

Last night after coming home, about 9pm, Charmaine's temp started rising. Went to 101.7 at one time but settled a little. The Drs. wanted us just to watch it and come in if it went up again. It never rose that high again. Stefanie came and spent the night to help me monitor her during the night.

She has for the 1st time a fair amount of ulcers in her mouth, throat and esophagus. She also has one on her lip. In addition she has some red rashes on her face and throat from the last transfusion. She has been very fortunate until now not to have had either of these. They are both very common with chemo and transfusions.

Today she was very tired all day and ran a low grade fever. This afternoon about 4 it spiked again to 102. We left for Emory ER about 430PM.

I am home now. Stefanie is with her there now. They have just taken blood samples, did a chest xray and an ekg checking her out. The fever has broken. We are not sure if they will admit her again or just treat and send home. Stefanie will let me know in a while.

Needless to say she was so disappointed to come home expecting to be here for 4 to 6 weeks and have to go back the next day. Hopefully this will all stabilize in a day or two.

Will keep you all posted.

Thanks for all your prayers and for caring about her so much.

Sam


11:15PM update.............She is coming home. She and Stefanie are on the way now.
We have to be at the clinic at 7am in the morning to see the Dr and for more tests. Will probably come home and sleep!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank God she is coming home.

Sam