Thursday, February 01, 2018

Waiting out the Nadir

They tell me I'm doing great. Apparently I'm a really good at waiting.

Yesterday (Wednesday) I ultimately got 2 units of red blood, and one bag of platelets.

The nice thing for today (Thursday) is that I don't need any more transfusions, with both red and platelet counts above their respective thresholds.

My white cells, though, remain at essentially zero.

I had a bouncy little fever-chills cycle yesterday, with one reading as high as 100.3 (before reading 99.6 a few moments later).  Had it gone to 100.4 that would have triggered more serious antibiotics and Hospital rules require stopping the transfusions if they elicit a fever above 100.4.

In fact, they gave me two Tylenols to keep the fever below 100.4. which seemed like cheating to me. But as noted, they are threading their way through a lot of scenarios and the idea, apparently, is that a "real" fever would not have been deterred by the Tylenol.


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