I felt good again yesterday, attended a funeral in the morning and worked at the office in the afternoon. As I went home around 4.45pm I started having some chills. They got worse and worse and within an hour I had a fever also. As per instructions we called the on call doctor, and headed to the ER. I felt like garbage and we waited for about an hour. We got back into a room in the ER, and the tests began (chest x-ray, flu, blood cultures, etc.). Chills stopped and fever went down, all tests negative, but into the night my blood pressure was and stayed too low. They weren't sure, and didn't have answers, and so we were given the option to go home or stay for observation. Mindy wasn't comfortable with going home, and invited the ER doc to communicate with the CCNW on call doctor. Ultimately we pushed for staying. So I was admitted and am still here.
It's been determined that ultimately I'm dealing with sepsis, and I'm in the ICU.
IV fluids through the night and antibiotics and steroids today. I feel OK other than tired. Did an ECG earlier. Don't think we know the results of that yet but everything else seems normal, so they are baffled as to the cause thus far. Blood pressure higher today but not high enough, and fever came back. More docs coming today to try to figure things out.
The fantastic news?........Mindy just spoke with Dr. Danko by phone and PET scan was completely clean (his words were, "clean as a whistle!")!! We are ecstatic!
We love you all and will keep you up to date.
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