After Pete ate a banana for breakfast we took a taxi here and arrived around 9:30. It was just raining lightly but it's certainly not as warm and muggy as it had been the past couple of days.
D is off today, so D2 is his nurse. Of course there was no blood return again, so she had to draw the blood from his arm. A came in a short time after and was asking about whether he had a fever through the night to account for the chills and sweats, but it was 98.8 when we had taken it. Though there seems to be no fever she is having more blood drawn for a culture to look for infection of some sort. Since his weight is down again, despite the iv fluid they sent home with him, he'll be staying longer today because they will be giving him a second bag of iv fluid and also sending him out with an additional bag. She told him that she wants him to drink at least 2 bottles of water each day and pointed to the large bottle of water sitting next to his bed. I told her that I keep trying to encourage him to drink but he just is not following through.
I called Bruce this morning before I knew all of this. Right now, he's driving in and bringing extra bed sheets and a few other things. When I spoke with him I thought that we'd be finished at the normal time, between 1 and 2 and he'd be able to drive us back to Hope Lodge, but we'll have to decide whether that's how we'll work it seeing as Pete probably won't be leaving now until 5 or so.
I talked with Pete this morning while he was eating his banana about requesting an extension of our stay at Hope Lodge. I know how much he wants to be home, I do, too. But if the next several nights are going to be anything like the last two or if it winds up that he does have some kind of infection, going home and trying to commute are not going to be the best thing to do.
More later.
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