Monday, December 15, 2003 8:26 PM CST
Susan here...
Well - today wasn't so bad. We sat around the clinic for a long time. They were running far behind. They insisted on taking his blood by finger-prick and also I had to give him his shot but he did well with both. Once we finally got into a room around 1:00 they premedicated him with a pain medicine and anti-inflammatory and then gave him the antibody. His pain came rather suddenly about 2/3 of the way through. He was in great pain and was holding his breath and grunting and crying and writhing around. They gave him two more doses of pain medication in about 8 minutes and he basically passed out from that. In fact they were then unable to get a blood pressure read from him. The funny thing was that if we asked him a question he would respond but he had really low blood pressure. They gave him some fluids and it finally came back up and he woke the rest of the way up. When it was time to go he threw a big fit because he wanted to stay in the comfortable bed. I made him get in the stroller and he was fine after we got home and he watched some TV ate a little dinner and watched Frosty the Snowman and then went to bed aroun 6:30.
Tomorrow we go in around 8:00 and it should be a much shorter day. He gets so upset about going in the morning so that will be a pain. He reall doesn't like going there mostly because we sit and wait and wait and wait in a very large, noisy, crowded waiting room for hours on end and he really want a comfy quiet place to be. I can't blame him!
I will try to update tomorrow night to let you know how day #2 goes. They say it is less painful every day that goes by so at least that is something!
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