62 Months: Beatdowns

It has been an interesting couple of weeks. A short while back I wound up in the hospital with an infection treated, I had a 103° fever. I had fever, Chills and shivers like I have never had in my life. Shivering got so bad at one point that they applied oxygen to me. Eventually they administered morphine to calm my body down. I spent about five days in the hospital until the fever was under control and the infection was being treated well. I was sent home with an IV set to finish the IV antibiotics on my own. It appears that the infection is gone.

I began to have double vision. The doctors ordered an MRI on this past Friday and today I got the results. The MRI was clear so we can assume that the double vision is being caused by all the medications I am taking. It is just something I will have to deal with for the time being.

I've had trouble with elevated potassium and creatinine levels. The creatinine levels indicate that there is a problem with my kidneys and they are working on it. I'm being infused with 1 L of Saline and dextrose every day. It takes about four hours each day so we try to get that done as soon as possible.

My appetite is pretty good however I must watch what I eat so that I don't increase potassium levels in my blood. And I have to drink as much liquids as possible. So basically for the time being it's bread and water!

The potassium levels if they get too high, can cause heart attack. I guess were going to have to keep an eye on that. I don't want to have my cancer cured only to die of something stupid like kidney failure. So I am going to behave myself the best that I can. I am under house arrest for the time being. Right now I pretty much only go out to go to the doctor offices. The doctors will tell me when it is safe for me to venture back out into the real world. Not soon enough.