It has been a very difficult week. First the problems with the catheter, then very little sleep for either of us for two nights. By Friday morning I was exhausted, but Dennis was in less pain. The bleeding has also stopped.
When I came home Friday, Dennis was laying in bed shivering, under our very warm down comforter. The cover was actually jumping around with his shivers. At the same time his face was burning up. I don't know his actual temperature, our digital thermometer had run out of steam, but I know he was above normal.
I covered him up in another quilt, and gave him a sleeping pill. A few hours later his fever broke, and he was able to sleep through the night.
We haven't said it aloud to each other, yet, but I believe we are both concerned that he is beginning to lose the ability to regulate his body temperature. I sure hope I am wrong about this. I don't want to expect the worst, but these days, the impossible seems possible.
Tommorow, a lighter entry. I promise.
Until Tomorrow,
Ann and Dennis
Living with Shy-Drager, Multiple System Atrophy and an unfair disease
4 comments:
Hello Anno..
Please let me know how Dennis is doing. It´s ok to write worried posts. This blog was started so you could relieve your feelings and worries thru writing..when you needed to..when you and Dennis needed to..wasn´t it? That was one of reasons anyway..wasn´t it?
Thinking you! iva/humlan
Iva, thanks for your concerns. Yes, it is a daily journal of ups and downs, and relieving some stress was one goal. Thanks for the reminder.
Hi...just catching up to this page. (1) is your Dennis still alive? (2) My Husband diagnosed in 2014 and now has once in a while temperature spikes
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