Thanksgiving

Had a quite the week. Enjoyed Thanksgiving with my sister and family (Olivia had chemo the day before) and all was good until last Saturday when her body was aching and the rash was not really getting better. We'd been to clinic or hospital every day for hydration bag changes (always has hydration after this particular medicine) and no one thought anything of the pain or rash. Saturday night she could barely move and her arms broke out in blisters. I called the hospital and told them we wouldn't be giving her the IV antibiotic until they saw her the next day. By morning she had more blisters and when the oncologist saw her he was shocked. Dermatology and Infectious Disease were called and it turns out she is allergic to the IV antibiotic after all. They did not even consider it beforehand because it is so "rare."

She is doing well now that she is off the medicine but not without a lot of unnecessary suffering. If they had had a plan in place when they said they were going to, the rash would never have gotten this bad. Funny how they could come up with an alternative antibiotic so quickly once there was no way she could stay on the IV!

Now we're just focused on resting up and getting back on track for the remainder of treatment. We begin again Monday. Have a great weekend!