John was supposed to have his scans today to check his progress as well as to help the radiation oncologist decide on his radiation game plan.
BUT he started the morning with chills. When he gets chills, it's not just typical shivering; it's uncontrollable teeth chattering and full-body shaking. (This time, so far, there hasn't been the teeth chattering.)
To have a PET scan, they have you relax in a chair for an hour before you go into the scan. With John's shivers there wasn't any way that he could relax. So the scan was cancelled and we were instead sent to the Accute Care Clinic. (That's kind of like an emergency room except they have office hours and you have to have an appointment. It only took John's nurse 5 minutes to schedule an appointment for him though.)
The Accute Care Clinic got John's cultures, etc so they can search for an infection. Then they sent us up to a hospital room on the 4th floor. So now we are just hanging out waiting for the fever to go away and his white blood count to recover. His white blood count has to be at .5 or 500 before he can go home; right now he is at .25 or 250. So far, we haven't heard back if he has an infection but since he doesn't have symptoms of anything, then so far they are just guessing it's a neutropenic fever like his other ones.
We are hoping he will be able to get his scans before he leaves this hospital stay.
(Hi Kimberly :) )
I commented...did it not show up? I was so excited to have my own personal shout out! :) thank you-it was so good to talk to you yesterday. Was he able to get his scans done?
ReplyDeleteNo scans yet. But they have orders in so if there are any openings then he should be able to get scanned. Fever stayed between 102-104 during a lot of the day yesterday. Now he's gone just over 12 or 14 hrs without a fever. His white blood is up to .530 so that's good. Drs will do rounds in a while and we will find out the game plan. They did find out he has c diff again/still.
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