Today Isabelle woke up with a fever of 100.6. We called the clinic and they told us to bring her in as soon as we could. They drew up a blood culture, checked her blood counts, and gave her some tylenol. Her red blood count was low as they already knew, so they went ahead and gave her a transfusion. They decided to do this today instead of waiting until Friday as planned because she was experiencing the symptoms of having low red blood counts. (fatigue, crankiness, and headaches) With every patient that has a fever in the clinic they give antibiotics 2 days in a row, so they gave her some this morning. Her white blood count was 6700 which is very high. (could be her body fighting off an infection, allergies, a virus, or pretty much anything)
Side effects from her push chemo are flu-like symptoms and she is getting a very high dose. She had a fever, her body was aching, she has a rash, and she was fatigued. (all side effects) We were at the clinic all day and afternoon. Abel had to call out of work and by the time we got home it was dinner time. Isabelle was so exhausted she fell asleep and we had to wake her up to eat. She has barely eaten anything all day because she has been feeling so yucky. She had a fever of 101.4 at 6 pm. This morning she was also feeling very nautios and threw up a few times.
Isabelle has an appointment at 9:15 am tomorrow for more chemo, she needs a second dose of antibiotics (it is given IV over 30 mins), and then they will deaccess her port. Hopefully she will feel better tomorrow. It has been an exhausting day for everyone.
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