Thanks Angela. Well, we had a late-night trip to hospital, following a call to the out-of-hours doctor. He wanted her examined again because her temperature just wouldn't come down, she still had rigors, and the Ondansetron was wearing off too quickly and she was reaching again. When we got there we had to wait for someone to come out and put a mask over her mouth and nose, then we were escorted through reception to a room and asked not to leave it. The doctor examined her again, her temperature was 40.2 and we had to keep waking her up to answer his questions, she was falling asleep that quickly! He increased the Ondansetron to the adult dose and said to ignore the paracetamol and ibuprofen daily dosage limits and keep alternating both every four hours. He said that he too, was concerned with her heart which was 'zipping along', but that when we get on top of the temperature it will slow it down. He said there wasn't really anything else he could suggest that I wasn't already doing, and that if the sickness started up again she had to go back immediately. We were then escorted back out of the building again.
So she slept most of the night with her head in a sickbowl, feeling sick but not actually being sick, needs to be practically carried to the toilet because she hasn't the strength to walk, still has a high temperature, is coughing and sniffing and breathing rapidly, and is making moaning sounds in her sleep. But now when she is awake she is telling me how ill she feels, that all of her body hurts, which is something she wasn't able to do for the last two or three days when she was having trouble answering a question, let alone string a sentence together, so I'm hoping that's a sign of improvement
Thanks so much for all your good wishes, when she's a bit more alert I'll show them to her
