Not a good morning for Don – he felt awful as soon as he woke up – he had been up a few times throughout the night. His energy level was probably at a “0” if I was to give it a rating. Had a few episodes of diarrhea throughout the night also – not a lot but 1 is too many for the way he has been feeling. I called IPOP early to find out about the stool culture – if anything was wrong he couldn’t get Imodium but thankfully it was fine so off to the pharmacy I went to get it. Gave him some around 11:30ish a.m. I think it has really helped so far (considering it’s 8:53 p.m.). Stomach still continues to feel queasy though. He felt dizzy early on and that continued on throughout the day.
2:00 p.m. appointment in HIPOP – Nurse was Jo – great lady we’ve had before. Another nurse Brenda took his temp, weight, blood pressure. His blood pressure again was very low so he was hooked up for hydration. Nurse Practitioner came and asked the normal questions – she gave him a new med for nausea – yep one more try. The two he already has doesn’t seem to help so why not? Let’s hope THIS one helps. Because Don has been running a low grade fever in the evening she had discussions with another colleague as to whether or not she was going to put Don on an antibiotic. They decided they would not at this time.
His potassium was low once again so they gave him transfusion of this as well. We left there at about 5:20 p.m.
Got home and Don rested – I went to 7-11 and when I got back fixed him some dinner after awhile. He did pretty good – some baked potato, corn and applesauce. So far so good as far as stomach goes. It sure did gurgle a lot though – so we were thinking “oh boy here it comes”. But not yet and with any luck it will be okay.
He laid back now but says he will get up in a bit – guess we’ll see if he really feels like it or not. He seems most comfortable lying down but I like him to be up – even if it’s sitting on the recliner.
Okay going to post this – Don is going to eat some yogurt and then head back to bed soon.
Keep those prayers coming – we appreciate them all!!
Until tomorrow……
Love you all!
Don & Muffin
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