Fever!!! Really??? Day +61

I got about three hours sleep this morning after spending two hours in the Paris ER last night. Stevan wasn’t feeling good yesterday afternoon. He began to complain about an upset stomach after eating lunch and having his afternoon medicine. He layed down from 5pm til 7:30pm. He finally got up to hang out with me and the kids, but after 10pm he asked me to get the thermometer. He thought he might have a temperature... sure enough, 101.1. We called the BMT unit in OKC and got ahold of his favorite nurse, Jenny. We told her what was going on.

Let me back up a bit and tell you the back story here. Friday Stevan and a friend of his began working on a chicken pen that we desperately needed to house our growing population of chickens, baby guineas and baby turkeys. Stevan doesn’t seem to know when to stop... so he got too hot.

Jenny told us that she would call the doctor on call and let us know what we should do. A few minutes later she called and told us to go to the emergency room closest to us. I took his temp again and it was going up.. 101.3 By the time we got him to Paris ER it was midnight and his fever was up to 103. They ran a CBC, UA and urine culture, chest x-ray, and blood cultures. Everything came back clean. They gave him two Tylenol and checked his vitals after an hour. His fever dropped to 99.2 so they released him around 2:15am.

We called the Cancer clinic this morning and told Sheri, the Medical Assistant, what had happened. We discussed what he had been doing. She agreed that he more than likely just got too hot, but she would discuss it with the doctor and would call back. She did say that he didn’t need to be outside at all today.

Stevan slept most of the morning but got up to go eat lunch at the "red B", where I was working today. He then visited his mom and came home for his health care nurse to do her weekly blood draw and hook him up to his medicine. He was asleep when I got home at 3:30pm. I layed down and we both slept till 7pm. I finally got up and did some chores around the house, cracked open a watermelon for dinner and he got up to eat some. Around 10pm he checked his temp again and it had come up again... 101. I checked it a few minutes later and it was at 100.

We discussed what to do and he decided to take two Tylenol and go to bed. We will call the clinic again in the morning and let them know what happened. I dont think either one of us can handle another night like last night.

Hopefully we won’t have to go to OKC, but I have my doubts that they will have us stay to stay home and do nothing.