A big thank you and flowers for the birthday wishes!

Unfortunately it was not the best of days.Just over a year ago my husband was diagnosed with polymyalgia. It is basically a condition that inflames the muscles of the body. It is treated with prednisone but sometimes there are flareups.(more prednisone) For most that we have heard of it is a severe aching in the muscles,but for some reason my husbands symptoms are a bit different. It starts with a dull aching,then EXTREME chills for a couple of hours and then a fever sets in,usually between 103-104 degrees F. That takes a few hours to get under control.Well this hapened on the morning of my birthday.Before it has hit in the middle of the night and that is worse.First I try to get him warm and we up the prednisone (Dr. says to do this) and give tylenol. This time his fever was 104 and it was a real .......!Because he has just one lung he also gets very short of breath (more inhalers),it affects the muscles around the lung..hence shortness of breath.Itis very scary.The first time it happened I had to dig out the driveway(heavy snowfall) and we went to emergency!Now we follow the same routine that they did,but man it is sooo tiring.It takes a lot out of him and he gets so tired but because of the upped prednisone dose he has trouble sleeping.Now he will slowly decrease the dose down to 5mg. again.and keep our fingers crossed that this thing will soon go away! Prayers wont hurt either. We are both totally wiped and I am sorry that I have not had the time here that I would normally have. You Cuties help keep me sane!
Thank you all again for the Birthday wishes. It was the highlight of my day!
Hugs & flowers,Nadyne