Taking Care of Linda.

[swestrup]

Well, since a number of folks have asked in the last few days I should report that taxlady is still quite ill. She's got no energy and her fever keeps spiking up to dangerous heights. Plus, she's been throwing up a fair bit. I gave her an alcohol rub down an hour or so ago when her temp was approaching 40.5 and we wanted to get it down fast. She's been taking ASA and AC&C to help with the temp, but there's only so much aspirin you can take (and nothing else works on her).

Later today I'm walking over to the nearby health-food store to see if I can find her some crackers or cracker bread that contain nothing but wheat and water. Right now any type of oil or grease in her food makes it inedible, and every commercial cracker in the house contains some sort of oil product.

Comments

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

uhm, has she been seen by a doctor?

[swestrup]

No. We did phone her doctor today and left a message asking if we should bring her in. So far, no response.

[thebabynancy.livejournal.com]

I would think that a fever that high... would warrant an immediate call back. *sigh*

[swestrup]

Have now heard back from a doctor. Says we've been doing the right things and how to know if we need to take her to the hospital.

[rehenazelreyhan.livejournal.com]

I hope she is ok! How long has she had the fever?

[swestrup]

She's alternated fever and chills since Saturday afternoon.

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

sounds like doctor time :( if you need a drive to the clinic (since she's sick) just gimme a shout!

[swestrup]

Thanks. If things look bad, we may just take you up on that.

[rosy1.livejournal.com]

I agree, she should go to the doctor, flus can be quite nasty now.
Also sometimes plain rice or a cream of wheat cereal will be just as good, if not better than crackers. Hope she's feeling better soon.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Ack! Best wishes for her swift recovery.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

Tell Linda we hope she feels better soon.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Hope she gets well soon!

It sounds like a nastier version of what I had over the weekend...and maybe last week. All of last week I had no energy, and had a hard time getting out of bed. Then over the weekend, I went to bed when I got home on friday, and didn't get out of it until Sunday night, when I started getting hungry. I had *no* apatite, and was slightly nauseous. I think it was during Saturday, I am think I had a fever as the room seemed so hot to me, I had to turn off the heater. Usually, I have to have it going when I am in the room for any length of time and the temp outside is below +5 C. I don't think it was that warm Saturday.

ttyl

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery for her!

[messiahdivine.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what my coworker had :(

Please pass on my Get Well Soon!! to Linda

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Yikes, that's distinctly worse than what I had. And what I had was no fun, so she has my sympathies.