Pre-Thanksgiving.. Sam's beloved fever has made an appearance again....this time its playing hide and seek. Its been low grade staying around 100.5 and below but likes to come out more at night than during the day. Causing the infamous sweats/shivers. To the point that I called Dr. Bolling's office on Wednesday morning after he had to change his pajama's 3x in one night. I talked to Marguerite and she called in an antibiotic to start Sam on. She also ordered blood work so they could check his white blood cell count.
The visiting nurse came over on Wednesday afternoon to check his incision/chest tube site, take blood for the INR (coumadin level)/blood cell count and possibly remove his sutures. The only issue....she couldn't get any blood from Sam. She called her office and asked that a 2nd nurse come over and poke him for blood.... since the blood work was ordered as "STAT" (due to Thanksgiving being the next day and the office would be closed)..the nurse was supposed to be over within a few minutes...An hour and half later the nurse director from the home nursing company came over for blood work. She took a few stabs at Sam before making him bleed. We were told we would get Sam's blood work results sometime Wednesday evening so that he had piece of mind for the holiday.
Marguerite called Wednesday evening and had called the lab to get an update on Sam's blood work but they weren't able to locate his samples that were dropped off. Of course this put Sam into a tizzy and flashbacks of all the poking stirred.... He called the nurse to see if his blood work was in fact dropped off at the lab and asked her to call Marguerite back. We were told the lab was still processing the blood work and can you believe it ... they had results for us 15 minutes later! His white blood cell count was around 10.6 and normal is 10...it is lower than it was in the hospital so that is good. They want him to continue taking the antibiotic for the full 14 day course just in case.
Needless to say Sam wasn't a happy camper after the second nurse left...Good thing Roxy came to stay with us on Wednesday afternoon until Monday...We have been watching her since she was just a little pup of 8 weeks old...Sam LOVES her!! It was good to get a positive loving puppy in the house to break up all the medications, pain and annoyance's Sam faces daily. We are relaxing with Roxy for the weekend :)
[Sam & Roxy watching the Red Wings]
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It sounds like Wednesday was a heck of a day. We would love to come visit whenever Sam is ready. We wanted to give you a little time, so just let us know when you're ready. We're so thankful that he's on the mend!
Noelle
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