Monday afternoon Madelyn started running a low grade temperature. The fever continued until Tuesday morning and she was acting sick - so we called Children's. They told us to come in as soon as possible... let me tell you those are NOT fun words to hear. Madelyn and I packed up for a inpatient stay, put her Elma cream on and headed south. Sophia was also running a temperature so she and Peter stayed home. The fevers didn't surprise us as two parents from school contacted us and her two best friends were also sick.
I hate, hate, hate these reminders of the danger Madelyn lives in. I hate cancer. It was a long drive to Seattle.
It looks like she will be ok this time around though. As soon as we arrived we were ushered back to a room, her port was accessed and was immediately evaluated by an Oncologist. She was given some Tylenol and received an hour of fluids. We are not allowed to give Madelyn Tylenol unless instructed to by an Oncologist. They need to know when a fever is presenting itself. Her blood was drawn for a CBC and blood cultures. She also gave a urine sample. Then we waited for her blood cell counts to come back...
Hem 39.2 Plat 146 WBC 2.7 ANC 2052
Because her ANC is so high her body is able to fight this off. If she had a fever and a low ANC we would immediately be inpatient. She would have received 48 hours of IV antibiotics and not released until she was 48 hours fever free. Luckily, this didn't happen.
I decided to go to my sisters house in case her fever continued. I was allowed to giver her Tylenol until 7am this morning and then if the fever continued we were to go back to the hospital. She was essentially fever free from the afternoon until this morning so we headed home today. We are still waiting on the blood cultures and urine sample, but she is already noticeably feeling better. My feeling is all will be well...
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