Day +2

Not much news today. I still have a lot of weakness, little or no appetite, but also no real pain or nausea. It looked like my temperature was creeping up from the 97.5° range to 98.8° range, but it didn’t go much higher. Apparently, a neutropenic fever (100.5° or above) is quite common in this point in the process, and if that happens, they do a portable chest X-ray, culture all the ports on the Hickman catheter, and give a different antibiotic which usually takes care of it.

I also go through periods of just being uncomfortable, again without any pain, but just a restless discomfort. It then subsides after a while or after a nap if I can manage to fall asleep.

WBC .8
Hgb 8.8
Plt 14 (31 after transfusion)
ANC .?

Another day closer to recovery …