Dad was sleeping when I came in the room. His PCA said that he had spiked a temperature up to 103.5 and that they had to put ice on him to cool him down. He had ice packs under his arms and on his thighs. I also noticed the bag on the side of the bed indicating that a foley catheter had been placed. In a few minutes he woke up and I asked him how he was doing. He said that he was cold. I asked him if he was a crisp as a cucumber. He got a grin on his face and nodded yes. I thought if I had ice packs under my arms and on my thighs I would be cold as well. We chatted for a while. He said he slept fairly well. I thought that he would have because the night before he got up several times to go to the bathroom. Last night he did not need to do that.
Today was going to get radiation on his femur. I hope that with a few radiation treatments that will reduce the pain he has in his leg. The PCA checked his temperature and it has dropped to 99.1. There was a little cheering in the room because he could soon have the ice removed.
Dad’s status later in the day was that they had moved his PIC line from his left arm to his right arm due to infection. He was also going to get his first feeding from his feeding tube as well. Wayne called me from the hospital in the evening and said that he was getting several visitors. That is good that people are coming out to see him.
Wayne also said that his temperature was down. Wayne brushed his hair for a while and tucked him in for the night. He said that Dad was tired from lots of visitors. I will have to wait and see how he is doing tomorrow.
