Last night around midnight Karen suddenly got nauseous. She's still on the same chemo schedule where she takes Lansurf for two weeks and then has a two week break, and she was due to start today. It's not uncommon for chemo patients to get nauseous when they travel past a building where they had received chemotherapy, or to get nauseous the morning - or even day - before chemo. And while Karen doesn't get drive-by nausea, she has gotten nauseous before chemo. So we chalked it up to that.
She has to take her chemo pills with food, but when she got around to eating this morning she puked instantly. She hadn't even taken the pills yet. At this point we figured it probably wasn't a mental thing, and tried to guess what it could be. She had pooped just fine last night before bed, again, around midnight; so we figured it probably wasn't a blockage. That left us with a stomach bug or food poisoning. We couldn't think of any questionable food we had eaten recently, but either way there's nothing they can do for a stomach bug or food poisoning, so Karen wanted to try and wait it out.
Unfortunately the antiemetic (antinausea) medication wasn't working, and Karen kept puking every hour or two. After the fourth time vomiting Karen was getting worried; maybe it was a blockage. So we decided to head into the ER. They did an X-ray instead of the usual CT scan to check for any signs of a blockage instead of starting with the CT, but didn't find anything. She also hasn't vomited since we got to the hospital. They did give her something for nausea, but it's the same stuff that wasn't working at home. And she hasn't needed anything in awhile. It looks like she almost outlasted it, whatever it was.
We don't expect to be admitted.
