Owen’s Leukemia – days 92-93

Through the night on Tuesday was pretty rough.  He didn’t sleep much and was in so much pain.  The whole night we kept checking his temperature to make sure he didn’t get a fever.    We also kept debating if we should just take him to the ED or try to wait it out until his appointment at 11 the next morning.

Wednesday morning was the first time in a few days that he spoke and what he said was “it  hurts so bad, I want to go to the hospital.”  I packed our bags and headed out before 8 am.  I called at 8:30 to beg them to take him earlier and they were so great to say bring him in.  We got here and they got the morphine and fluids started right away.  We spent a good part of the day in the infusion room on the clinic side of the floor before they decided to admit him.

The night wasn’t too bad… He was very medicated and slept a lot.  This morning they were doing his vitals and noticed that his oxygen concentration was down and wanted to get him on oxygen.  He fought and wouldn’t let them put the cannula in his nose, so they gave him a blow by that we basically hold in front of his face.  It seems that the morphine is causing this.  they are now trying to cut back the morphine.  So, we are spending another night here.  He is definitely better than yesterday morning, but now just not liking being here.  Hopefully we will get out soon