Saturday Scare

Saturday, just two days after my surgery and one day after I left the hospital, was supposed to be a fairly relaxing day for me. My first full day at home since Tuesday, I was supposed to just lie around and rest that day, doing nothing but maybe watching some movies or TV. At first that was all I did that day. Eating and drinking were fine and urinating was also fine.

But at night, while I was just sitting on the couch watching a movie with my parents the unexpected happened. At first it just felt like I was a little cold, nothing I could not handle. But it seemed to progress. I put a light blanket on my torso but that did not help much. I began shivering uncontrollably, completely unable to stop. First my dad, then my mom, tried to hold me in order to stop the shivering. I was terrified. I was totally unable to stop my muscles from tensing up. It almost felt like I was going to die.

Finally, while in my mother's arms, I stopped shivering. I was so relieved! It was just so frightening to be shivering uncontrollably like that. Unfortunately, the shivering was followed by a fever. My father called a doctor and they said that I might have to go to the hospital again. I did not want that. Fortunately, the doctor ended up saying that I should take some pills and go to sleep and if the fever persisted until morning I would go to the hospital. I slept good and hard that night and when I woke up the fever was very low and by midday it was totally gone. I hope that this never happens again because it was terrifying. Hopefully the chemotherapy will not produce side effects like this. Right now I'm just glad I am better and I hope it stays that way until Friday because I desperately need some time to relax!