Above is a photo of Dave's Chest XRay from yesterday.
Tuesday evening, I was talking to Dave and he was telling me about this fever he had. He was running in the low 100s so I wasn't worried. He took some ibuprofen and rested up.
The next day, he headed to Chitre to go to the All Volunteer Conference. This made me feel better because, though he wouldn't be home resting, he'd be around a lot of people who would look out for him and could take care of him quickly if necessary. He was still running a fever and a little sore but didn't have any other symptoms. When I talked to him around 2:30, his temp was up to 103.
Thursday's a bit of a blur. I know that his fever had gone down during the day.
Friday morning, I get a call from Dave saying that his fever is back. Then I get another call saying he's going to the hospital because he had chills. At this moment, I freaked out. You could hear the chills going through him as he spoke. He didn't sound worried so I tried not to worry - especially because he was on his way to the hospital - but I still worried anyway. After talking to him more about that moment, he alerted me to the fact that he had actually turned a bit white and was really scared. So glad he didn't tell me any of that initially.
I called him about every other hour for the rest of the day to check in on him. Upon admission, he had a temp of 105.4 which terrified me. After doing a chest xray and blood labs, they determined that he had the flu and pneumonia. It turns out he must've gotten the flu from a little one in his town and somewhere along the way picked up pneumonia.
After being hooked up to an IV with fluids for rehydration, antibiotics, and antipyretics, his temp is down and he's feeling better. He'll be taking the antibiotics for a week and I've instructed him to take it easy - I'd probably hop on the next plane if something else were to happen! He's currently in Penonome, heading back to LB tomorrow.
Goodness!
Here's a link to his post from Thursday http://dwagner-panamapc.blogspot.com/2010/10/enfermo.html
This is the link to his post from today http://dwagner-panamapc.blogspot.com/2010/10/pneumonia-1054f-aaah.html
This is the link to his post from today http://dwagner-panamapc.blogspot.com/2010/10/pneumonia-1054f-aaah.html
2 comments:
it might have sounded like i wasn't worrying, but i was terrified.
Yea... Thanks again for not telling me how scared you were at the time!
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