Another Field Trip

This weekend brought another field trip to the hospital. I started to run a temperature on Friday night. Motrin was able to keep it under control and on Saturday we called the medical oncologist. They sent me to the hospital for a blood test. The hospital actually is a pretty quick place to get the test done. They wanted to make sure that my white cell count was still OK. I didn't have any other symptoms and the white count was OK so we just had to monitor the temperature and control it with Motrin. By Sunday the fever seemed to go away.

We did mention to the doctor that the same thing happened at about the same interval after the first chemo. It may just be a coincidence but it seemed odd that it happened again at just about the same number of days.

One other thing to note is that at this point all medicines have to go through the PEG tube. Some things work out better than others. Motrin in an example of this. It really doesn't crush up and dissolve in water well. Its the outside shell that is the problem. Not too worry. The children's motrin is in liquid form and you can take that in a large enough dose to be the equivalent of an adult dose. I did the same with Benadryl.

Tomorrow I meet with the radiation oncologist and get the results of the latest CT scan. I can feel the tumors in my neck shrinking but I am curious as to how far along things really are.