Sun, 12 Feb 2006
Counts are good, getting antibiotics, coming home
Christa took Nate up to Stanford Medical Center ER about 5:30pm. His
labwork came back and his neutrophil count is good (ANC of 4000 or
so). It's now 9pm, and they're waiting to get a shot of antibiotics.
It sounds like this is a one-time deal, and he won't have to take his
Augmentin over the next 10 days.
At least they don't have to stay. Maybe we'll even all get healthy
sometime.
- Greg
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Uggghh. Fever, again? Of course we should be so lucky.
Crap. We've got a reading of 100.8 from Nate. If we get a second reading of greater than 100.3 an hour after the first, that means we're paging the oncologist. And, it usually means an ER trip for blood counts.
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Ahhh... nap time.
Well, it's Sunday. A week since we got out of the hospital. What's
happened in a week? Let's see....
Nate spiked a fever Monday afternoon, I came home from work, hauled
him to clinic, they took blood and did labs, and we got sent home
since his ANC was 1200. Wednesday Nate has his usual weekly labs.
Wednesday afternoon Andrew woke up from nap crying and crying, finally
telling Christa that his ear hurt. Wed. night we took him to the
"after hours" pediatric clinic, and found out he has an ear infection.
The treatment? Give pain meds for a few days, and if he gets over it,
then we're good. If he's still hurting, start antibiotics. Nate's
blood counts were good, so he resumed his oral chemo starting Thursday
night. I started feeling like I was having allergy problems Friday,
but it appears that I've caught a cold. I don't feel too bad, but
have a runny nose, watery eyes. This morning at 5:30am Nate came into
our room complaining of an ear-ache. So, off to the urgent care
center he went (when they opened), and he has an ear infection also,
so he started antibiotics (he can't "tough it out" because of his
suppressed immune system). Andrew has been sneezing and blowing his
nose. Probably the cold I have. But, he's in a good mood and acting
pretty well, otherwise. Nate ate very little so far today, and when
faced with taking his antibiotics, promptly worked himself up and
threw up. I guess one more pill was the straw to break that camel's
back. Then he laid down and fell asleep.
So, right now Becca & Nate are napping, Christa has Andrew off to the
movie store, and I'm trying to get some work stuff done. Oh, and of course,
keep our loyal readers up to date.
Thanks for reading, hope you and your family are well.
- Greg
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