Post Second Consolidation: Day 4

Dear Fod's,

Deb has not been feeling very well since Sunday and she seems to be worsening. She was up a lot last night, checking her temperature, and complaining of aches and pains. She has been running a low grade temperature and today it started to get worse. At 100.5, we are supposed to go back to the hospital for testing and antibiotics. A fever is a sign of an infection and with no immune system, that could be a dangerous combination.

Deb called me at work around noon to tell me that her temperature was around the magic number, but that she wanted to watch it for a few more hours. At about 1:30 she called again to tell me that she was @100.7 and that it was time to go!

We arrived at the HUP labs at about 2:45 and they were all ready for us. They did the necessary testing and her results were WBC 3.5; platletes 28K; and HBG 8.5. All pretty good counts all in all. Dr. Porter told us to go home. Deb's temp. was in the 100 range and so we turned around and were home by about 5:30.

Deb is very tired and her counts are obviously falling. The lab staff typed and cross matched Deb for blood and platletes and told us to come back on Friday morning, no matter what. She will most likely be down low enough to get a shot of both -- but they told us not to wait until the weekend because we would then have to deal with the normal hospital staff procedures. So hopefully, the temp will stay down and Deb will hold on until Friday.

While typing this blog HUP admissions called us and asked us where we were? They said that we were supposed to be checking into the hospital. I said, no -- we were just at the hospital and they told us to go home. The administrator said that she would check with Dr. Porter, but wanted us to know that if Dr. Porter wanted us to be admitted that we would have to come back down. I told her that Dr. Porter would have to call me directly before I got back into the car tonight. I suspect that Dr. Porter was playing the odds and was arranging an admission when we were coming down, and that they never cancelled it at their end when Deb's counts were as high as they were.

Deb sends her love to all.