Hello to all my friends, today is day 19 in the hospital, I haven’t been able to write lately do to my health. My recovery was going well until this past Sunday (8/7/11); I was hit so fast I didn’t know what happened.
I was last Sunday afternoon when I started to feel cold (you all have to ask Theresa about this; Normally the Polar Bears and Eskimos feel the cold before I do!). Even after raising the thermostat up to 75*, I started to tremble. Within minutes I was shaking more and more it turned into uncontrollable tremors. The Nurse covered me with hot blankets. By now my temperature had gone up to 102, within hours it was up to 103.8 degrees. At that point I started to hallucinate.
The tremors continued most of the night during which time the Nurse packed me in ice, covering me with bags of ice to drop my temperature. In the morning I started to come out of it, my temperature started dropping, and the tremors subsided. Turns out I had gotten bacteria into my blood via the port in my chest. With my immune system close to 0% my body needed heavy doses of anti-biotics to fight this off. It was Thursday before they could get my temperature under a 100* and Friday morning before my temperature was back to normal at 98.6*
Quite a week, as it setback my recovery by 4-5 days. My White cell count remains low at .07%; for release they need it to rise back up into the thousands before my body will be able to fight of any infections.
It’s Friday morning at 6:30am and my morning blood tests just came back, my white blood cell count went up to .13% it’s nearly doubled since yesterday (.07 up to .13).
I’m continuing to fight this Cancer and I’m determined to beat this and go on to bigger and better accomplishments in my life.
Thank You,
Chemo Ken…
That’s all for now, Don’t forget to check my main blog for all my updates at: http://chemokenandthereddogs.blogspot.com/
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