Birthday's are usually a mixed bag. Its a fun, happy day, or it can be filled with challenges. Sometimes its both on the same day. Things were going along pretty well yesterday until sometime during my acupuncture treatment when Warren's left arm began to really hurt. He'd received both the flu shot and the pnuemonia vaccine in his left shoulder. This is the same side where he'd had the radical neck dissection. He was hurting so bad by the time we got home (about 4:00 p.m.) that he took 2 tylenol with codeine that he had left over from when he got his mediport put in in June. He got no relief from that so, 4 hours later he upped the ante by taking a hydrocodon tablet. That didn't help him either. Last night about 10:00 p.m. we called the in-patient hospital at NIH and he talked to the call nurse and an on-call oncologist and they suggested that he take 2 tylenol. He stayed in his recliner all night and didn't get much sleep. This morning we called the hospital back and they think he's had too much pain medication so he's back to one 650 miligram tylenol tablet every six hours. His pain last night was at a 10 on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being the highest). Today the pain is down to a 6 or a 7. He has almost no mobility in that arm either. He was not able to go with me to my daughter's for dinner last night.
My daughter cooked me a lovely dinner and surprised me by having a dining room table and chairs in her dining room. I didn't know she had gotten them and was expecting to perch in a living room chair to eat my dinner. My son brought the cake. We had a good time.
I'm not sure why Warren had such a bad reaction to his shots. I hope that he'll be better tomorrow.
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