{"id":2813,"date":"2018-01-04T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyinstitute.org\/?page_id=2813"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:25:44","slug":"hospital-return","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/blog\/the-c-word\/hospital-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter VI<\/strong><\/h1>\n

FRIDAY | Hospital Return<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\nDafna wakes up with a Fever.<\/strong> Almost 102.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s just a cold or something to worry about. Her incision sites look okay, I mean if you can look past the bruising and such.<\/p>\n

Dafna, however, isn\u2019t convinced. She knows her body best. She calls the doctor. We go back to the Hospital.<\/p>\n

It takes a while, we weren\u2019t on the schedule. They draw some blood. Finally, we see the Doctor. He looks at the incision sites, everything looks good. Her white blood cells are not elevated, all indications are that this is NOT an infection.<\/p>\n

Whew.<\/p>\n

He then shocks us by saying that he\u2019s going to re-admit Dafna to the Hospital.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t like that she\u2019s not feeling well, wants to take every precaution and make sure nothing is going on. He orders a CT Scan of her abdomen, chest x-ray, more blood, the works.<\/p>\n

I run back and forth between the hospital and home as our youngest son has arrived for the Holidays.<\/p>\n

We get back to the Hospital just as they\u2019re taking Dafna for her CT Scan.<\/p>\n

It seems to take forever and when she finally comes back to the room we find out that she \u201cblew a vein\u201d in one of her IV\u2019s.<\/p>\n

This would be comical if it didn\u2019t hurt Dafna so much. The amount of insult to injuries, the \u201cthis\u201d on top of \u201cthat\u201d that has happened in the past few weeks you could write a comedy show around.<\/p>\n

By Saturday, the swelling in Dafna\u2019s arm from the blown vein is starting to go down. Every single test is coming back normal which is good news and it appears that she simply caught a bug.
\nMuch like she was sick with a cold for the three days prior to surgery she is now sick again post-surgery. Her immune system has simply taken too many hits and her body is too tired.<\/p>\n

I fucking hate Cancer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s late Saturday night, around 9pm. We\u2019re finally home again.
\nDafna\u2019s back in her Bubbie\u2019s bed. I\u2019m back on the floor.
\nWe both manage to sleep through the night.<\/p>\n

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Chapter VI FRIDAY | Hospital Return [su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#000000″ margin=”0″]   Dafna wakes up with a Fever. Almost 102. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s just a cold or something to worry about. Her incision sites look okay, I mean if you can look past the bruising and such. Dafna, however, isn\u2019t convinced. She knows her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2813\/revisions\/2831"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devjourneyinstitute.com\/ji\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}