Fever

Bone Marrow Day

I did it. I got through the bone marrow aspirate. Without morphine and without sedation. Some people have asked why I did not get morphine or sedated. Here is why: 1. I have about 15 more of these bone marrow aspirates ahead of me in the next two years. 2. As an outpatient my only two (convenient) options will be to have them done in my oncologist’s office or at the hospital under sedation. 3. The pain for the method I chose today is quicker. I was walking the floor with a physical therapist minutes after the procedure.

Still running a low fever…waiting. My right arm is not as swollen today. In general my counts up today. And for the first time platelets are up. Only a little but still they are up.

And after going through today’s bone marrow aspirate so well, my spirits are up too. I was not looking forward to that procedure.

Waiting…

Still running a fever and trying to determine the cause or for it to resolve itself. Still waiting on all blood counts to show a consistent upward trend.

The last two nights and days I have ran a fever. Strangely at 4:00 am the last two days my temperature dropped to 98.6. Unfortunately it rises back up.

The concern is that the fever is due an infection. A likely candidate is sinusitis as my sinuses are full. They are still checking other possibilities though. All is being checked. Meaning they are taking lots of blood cultures. Sometimes it seems like they give me blood just to take it away again.

In spite of my concern about my temperature I still feel pretty good, aside from one lingering mouth sore, sinusitis and cabin fever.