Day 97

Quick update:  Another weekend and another ER visit and hospital admission.  I bit my lip on Tuesday and it seemed to be healing ok but in Friday night it started to get infected and my lymph node under my neck was hurting.  So I called the doctor and she told me to go to the ER, quick 1:30 hour visit and some penicillin later I was home again.  Of course as soon as I got home I started to get a fever.  I waited it out for a while but it got too high so I called the doctor again and she admitted me to South Austin.  Thanks to Faiza and Mehlam for watching kids during the ER visit and for driving me to the hospital at 8pm.  I have been here since Saturday night.  They did chest X-ray , blood and urine cultures, cat scan of my kidney (I still have that stone!), and everything came back with no infection.  I am very neutropenic, 0 neutrophils and only 0.2 WBC so I have to stay until my fever breaks.  As soon as I stop Tylenol  my fever spikes.  I am praying that tonight will be my last night and I can go home tomorrow.  They are giving me two different strong antibiotics around the clock to ensure nothing spreads or grows.  I got some red blood yesterday, I was at 6.9, the lowest I have ever been.  I will get platelets tomorrow.  So far it seems to just be a neutropenic fever , a fever just because I have nothing and my body is trying to protect me.  Please pray it leaves soon!