Late night A&E

Wednesday 20th February

Will let Tim fill in the details tomorrow when he hopefully feels more up to it, but at just gone 10 last night we had to set off for A&E in Worcester. He had been feeling progressively worse as the day went on anyway, but it culminated by him throwing his tea back up literally as soon as he put his knife and fork down. He went up to bed and in checking temperature we found it was 38.2 deg which in post chemo terms is much too high. Conversation with Coventry who wanted us to go there or A&E somewhere. We opted for Worcester as it was closer, in hind sight big mistake. We arrived and waved his red chemo card at receptionist and got taken more or less straight in. They took blood , checked him out and I left around 1am. He rang at 2.30am to say blood levels were OK but were treating him with antibiotics for viral infection.

They left him in side room all night but he got very little sleep. Today has been spent hanging around and him receiving very poor care. He was told he could go home around 3 this afternoon but it was actually gone 6 when we finally left there.
We got back Tim having had very little to eat again, and both of us very stressed and tired.
Taking his temperature again we found it was back over 38 deg but after a conversation with Coventry they told us to see how he was in the morning and thankfully didn't want us to go over.

Another fitful night I fear as I will struggle to relax until this temperature subsides.

Tomorrow can only be better.

Mandy