Thursday, March 17, 2011

Dave started feeling really bad last night.  He started running a high fever,  had a horrible headache, and pain in his legs so he wanted to go to the ER around 1:30.  His legs have been giving him so much trouble and it has gotten so bad he can hardly walk any distance at all.  The diagnosis was a touch of pneumonia and neuropathic pain in his legs.  I am glad to finally know a reason for the swelling, numbness, and burning he feels in his legs.  This neuropathy is caused by the chemotherapy most likely.  Chemo stinks!!  The kids and I came back home around 3:30 after we got him settled in at the ER and found out what they were going to do.  They released him at noon today.  He is very weak and resting in his comfy recliner.  I am hopeful the chemo is doing its job and killing some of the bad cells but it has been a beast to Dave's body.

We did go to the rodeo last night.  Dave was not up for it and took a taxi back to the apartment.  He was too weak to even try to go but wanted so much to be able to spend time with us. It was packed!  The kids had a good time.  We all got to ride the huge ferris wheel and eat cotton candy.  They loved the rodeo and the concert with Miranda Lambert.  We had to walk about a mile back to the car so it was about 11 before we got home.  Dave was burning up with a fever when we got here so I watched him for a couple of hours before we headed to the ER.  Today we are gonna try to get all of our schoolwork done with maybe a nap or two in between. 

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