You won't believe this

Adrienne had a rough night. At around 4:30 am, the tech came to do her daily chest xray. She usually just lays there while a lot of activity goes on around her, usually. This time, she had a full panic attack with hyperventilating and crying, and then the expected low sats. It took quite awhile to get her to calm down and back on the new BiPAP (not a BiPAP but like a BiPAP and I can't remember what it's called now). She's been taking Xanax here and there for the increasing anxiety but now she's going to get it every 6 hours on schedule. One crisis averted but the nurses wanted me to stay all morning. I was able to wash my hair in the sink (missed yesterday) and take a sponge bath. The regular room had a shower but the ICU room doesn't and they wouldn't let me use the staff shower (worried I might fall or something ridiculous like that).

Anyways, we have a trusty housesitter, Naomi, that loves our dogs and takes good care of everything. Having her at the house helps me sleep at night and focus on Adrienne, plus I don't have to leave detailed instructions like I do for Curt :). Around noon today, my neighbor calls saying the dogs have been barking and no one is answering the door. I gave her the combination to the garage and she got in and called me right back. Naomi was blue and it looked like she wasn't breathing so I said to call 911 right away and I came right home. The hospital is about 20-25 minutes from our house so it took me awhile to get back. Apparently Naomi had been vomiting and is a diabetic (I knew about the diabetes but not the vomiting). The paramedics came and took her to the hospital (she was breathing after all) and the dogs are fine, of course. Just some pee by the back door but there was vomit all over one bathroom. I'm almost done with the laundry after cleaning everything up and the dogs are now taking a nap. Karen (thatonegirl) is spending the afternoon with Adrienne until I get back to the hospital and Curt is on his way home, but that will take awhile given the holiday weekend traffic. My neighbor will look after things here until he gets back tonight. When it rains, it pours.

Adrienne is about the same. The docs talked yesterday and will decide today what treatment to give her. Chemo is definitely in the plan. She had a bit of a fever this morning but it was gone by the time I left, around noon. Everyone is doing everything possible for her so we remain hopeful, though this is the hardest thing any of us has ever had to do.