Long night in hell...started with lower back spasms about 9pm. I called the oncologist on duty and it happened to be Dr. D...she recommended some pain killers, benedryl and a hot bath. The last couple days I've been given a shot to help boost my white blood cell count...it's known to cause pain in the bones...she wasn't aware of back spasm side effects...but if that's it the benedryl should help.
I only had 2 pain killers left...so I did as she instructed...I was better until about 1am. Everything gradually got worse...major back spasms all the way up to my neck and a headache that felt like vice grips clamped to my temples. By 3am...I was twitching like a fish out of water...I didn't have any more pain killers so I took Tylenol PM which has benedryl in it. No relief whatsoever. I couldn't take the pain any longer so I had to make the dreaded middle of the night call to Mom at 4am...I told her immediately not to panic...I explained what was going on and she came right over to take me to the hospital. Then I had to call Tracy and freak her out...but I needed her to come over and crawl in my bed since Zoey was home asleep.
Emergency room at St. Luke's...they assessed my issues...gave me Morphin and Valium...and relief soon entered my world. By 7:30am, I was heading back home with pain killer and valium prescriptions. We were home before Zoey was even awake.
I called Libby to let her know what was going on...she's not sure that it's an oncology issue...I have chemo tomorrow so we'll just see how the day goes. I finally got some sleep by 9:30am...until about 4:30pm. Still having slight spasms...the drugs are helping though.
Not sure what the cause is...seems to be something new going on every other day...I could really use a break!
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