Fever

John did so great after his last chemo!  He got in 3 partial days of work from Wednesday night to Friday.  Wednesday was his third day in a row of chemo.  Typically at that point he is laying in bed in the dark and not very coherent.  On Wednesday he went to his office to work before coming all the way home from the hospital. Then he went to the office again for an hour on Thursday and he worked from home on Friday.  It was so unusual and great!  We thought for sure with him doing that great that he would avoid a fever this time around. But then on Tuesday John ended up in bed all day.  He said that he didn't feel fever sick, just chemo sick.  Then Wednesday he started getting feverish so we headed to Huntsman.  By Wednesday night close to midnight, John's fever broke and when he woke up Thursday he felt great again.  He still had to stay in the hospital until Friday, because once you get admitted with a fever, you have to stay there until your blood counts come up.  Once again they didn't ever find an infection. 

The next round of chemo was never scheduled because no one knew what to expect after his I/E week since John's body is always full of surprises.  So now that John has had his fever and his blood counts are on the rise, we should hear from the doctor tomorrow to see when she wants to do the next dose. 

I think it's been a full month since radiation ended.  Thankfully, most of the radiation side effects have gone from  extreme to either mild or gone.  John will go in soon for thyroid testing to see if his thyroid was messed up during radiation.  They had given him thyroid medication that would do his thyroid's job and hopefully put his thyroid to sleep during radiation so it wouldn't be affected.  Now he has been off the medication for a month, so his body, I guess, should have had time to go back to normal.  So they will test that soon so we can find out what happened, if anything, to his thyroid.