In Hospital

Adrienne is in the hospital now. We had her admitted yesterday afternoon after giving her everything we had at home. I was concerned about overmedicating and drug reactions, so after calling the clinic, we agreed to so in. She dropped her class at UNLV, which is no big deal, but it's a prerequisite for most of the classes she planned for the fall. She's been on IV dilaudid every two hours since being admitted and this afternoon we started to get her on oral pain meds. She still isn't pain-free so she'll keep the IV as long as needed. If the pain is from the Neulasta, it should go away on its own in a few days. If not, well, we'll deal with it then. The mouth pain is much better and she even ate some fried chicken for dinner. Except for the pain, she's actually doing okay, no shortness of breath, no weakness, nothing.

Except...I went downstairs to get her some ice cream and came back to find a neutropenic sign on her door. After a bunch of checking, she really isn't that neutropenic but they're being extra careful. They wanted to give her a Neupogen shot, which would likely give her even more bone pain. Huh? I made them call the doc and the shot was cancelled but I expect her ANC will be almost nonexistent tomorrow. We had hoped to get her out of there on oral pain meds but now I don't know. We'll see what tomorrow brings. For now, she's resting fairly comfortably.