CANCELLED

The MRI scan that we had scheduled for today (to check to see if the lump is reacting to the chemotherapy treatment) was unfortunately cancelled by the hospital this morning. Apparently the MRI machine has broken down and they are awaiting an engineer to come and fix it. Hopefully we’ll get an emergency rescheduled appointment in the next couple of days otherwise we’ll have to wait until next month. It would be nice to have the results at next week’s pre chemo appointment with the oncologist, but then I suppose it’s not a massive issue as the treatment will still carry on regardless. It would just be nice to know if we’re on the right track.

Sam temperature is starting to rise again. The headache and achey joints that she had last week have returned. We’re taking her temp every half hour and it went up to 37.5 but then started to fall again (37.2 at the last check). If it hits 38 or above then it’s straight back to A&E. She’s afraid to take any kind of paracetamol to combat the headache because that’ll artificially lower her temperature and give a false reading. She’s in bed now so hopefully she’ll just sleep it off and feel better in the morning. However, just to be safe, we’ll continue to monitor her and we’ll do another check when Charlie wakes up for his feed. Part of me feels like I should rush her to A&E now, but then the other part thinks it would be a knee jerk reaction. She’s taking those monster antibiotics so hopefully she’s covered but we’ll see how she is during the night.

I’ll let you know how we get on in the morning…..