Fever

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