Wife has been admitted to hospital ... again.
Fever last night, temp reaching just shy of 102... but responded well to ibuprofen & tylenol - fever broke, she slept well.
On-call oncologist had her go to outpatient clinic this morning for blood-work.
Floor oncologist (one of wife's regular oncologists!) decided to admit her, based on too-low neutrophil count.
For your enlightenment:
Neutrophil granulocyte
and
Absolute neutrophil count... ("zero" is a bad number)
Good news:
1. We're getting better at recognizing impending neutropenic fever
2. she'll be getting a "chemo holiday".
Aside: We celebrate 29th wedding anniversary tomorrow. We celebrate eight years of "living with cancer" next week. ... that's more than 25% but less than 30% of our married life: living with cancer.
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Happy Wedding Anniversary.
ReplyDeleteWishing you and T all the best.
Happy Anniversary.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the fight.
Wow, dude. I had no idea.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that. You want to swap "my wife is sick" stories, call me. You're currently winning on the "sick spouse" lottery.
I'm here if you need to vent.