Monday, June 23, 2008 ~ First day home from hospital

I woke this morning about 5:30am with 100 degree fever. I take my tylenol, prednisone, other meds. I make a protien shake, down that with a slice of toast, followed by Pedialyte. I am crampy achy. Pass a watery stool, no blood. That is good. I crawl back into bed to sleep a couple more hours. I am awakened by my dear sweet daughter mopping sweat from my body. The fever has broken. Temp is normal. The reason the docs decided to send me home with the fevers is that tests, cultures all revealed no real sign of a significant infection — no c. diff, no pnuemonia. There was a little higher white blood cell count in urine and the thought UTI, but then I had no real symptoms. Plus, the temps only rose early in the am and then return to normal during the day. So after alot of discussion we determined the fever is a result of the inflammation and illness and that I could manage it at home with the tylenol, and naps, liquids and plently of clothes to change (due to the sweats!)

Otherwise today has been a lovely day. I slept on and off. I washed some dishes and did some laundry.