Day 416 - 'one' hot chick

that's what I was tonight.  I took my temp after getting up from a nap, I just didn't feel right.  Very weak.  My temp at that time was 38.5, crap that's the temp that they ask you to go to the hospital with.  We thought we would give it another hour and see if it goes down.  I had the chills by this time.  An hour later and my temp was 39.2, crap again...
  So we called the oncologist at Surrey Memorial like we are supposed to and he suggested going to the hospital.  We asked if we could go to Ladner, he said sure and it's less busy there.  He said that they will probably do a blood workup to see if they can determine what was causing the temp rise.  So off we went.

We arrived at the hospital about 7:45 and by 8:00 they had me in a private room and a parade of nurses and tests preceded. They are so amazing there, they even made sure I had a mask on while I sat in the waiting room because my immune system was compromised.  Let's see, ECG, chest Xray, checking for bacteria in the blood, blood tests, IV started to hydrate me and antibiotics were being pumped in as well.  I felt like a princess.  By 10:00 they said my blood work was good, my temp was at 38.3 and the Fraser Valley Cancer Clinic will call me tomorrow to follow up. 

We are so glad we went, I feel much better now and I LOVE Ladner emergency, so nice and so quick!

FYI -  I wrote the following text earlier today before heading to the hospital tonight.

Right now I'm trying to simplify my life but boy has it ever been a lot of work! We've been working on my back yard now for months.  The new shed is built now and things are really taking shape but it's been a LOT of work for sure.  Going through every piece of wood and deciding what to keep and what to throw out.  I will try not to complain about what my hubby keeps cause boy I sure keep a lot of weird stuff too! 

My backyard previously was deemed as the place to do everything.  Cutting wood, building things, growing lavender, etc, etc.  Now it will become a place for little projects, growing beautiful flowers and relaxing.  So instead of going out in the backyard and looking at what I need to clean up, I will go into the back yard and smell the wonderful flowers, sit and have tea or ? and enjoy about 4 months of very hard work.  Yep, the vision is becoming a reality woohoo.

My tummy has been still giving me troubles, it actually feels at times like I didn't even have surgery.  So even though I am a year into treatments in some ways I feel like I am going backwards more than a year.  It's nice to not have to think about having chemo this week.  I am actually sleeping quite well these days, it could be I'm doing a little bit more physical labour than normal. 

I get to spend some time today with a good friend.  It will be an afternoon filled with the yak yak and catching up on what's going on in her life.  She always makes sure we talk about me too, even though she knows most of what is going on from my blog, she makes sure she asks.  It's always funny when people ask me how I'm doing and I feel like I'm a broken record because they already know everything from my blog but it's nice to say it out loud and have someone lend an ear.

A special thank you to all those readers of my blog out there.  The blog hit 10,000 total hits yesterday and I am overwhelmed.  Please keep spreading the word and please keep reading.  It's always nice to know that people out there are listening or at least laughing I hope LOL.  Thanks again!

signed 'one' cooled down purple ladybug