High Temperature on Taxol
Yesterday sucked.
My wife is getting close to the end of Taxol/carboplatin: 8 down, 4 to go. She gets the infusions on Thursdays. Yesterday (Sunday) she was feeling pretty tired all day. I just thought it was fatigue, and by the time I thought to take her temperature it was 5 pm.
37.4 C
Over the next hour we arranged for a friend to come and look after the kids, and by 6 pm her temperature had reached 38 C and we were on our way into the Emergency department.
At ED her temperature was 37.4 again. They quickly got some bloods and other samples, spoke to the on-call Medical Oncologist and put her on antibiotics. The antibiotics made her nauseous but that settled. This was about 10 pm.
She was transferred to her ward and spent the night. She is still there now (630 am) and is receiving the next antibiotic treatment.
Her white cell count is low, and has been hovering quite low for the last couple of cycles.
She feels ok, and I think she was dehydrated. Just waiting for her to see an MO.
My wife is getting close to the end of Taxol/carboplatin: 8 down, 4 to go. She gets the infusions on Thursdays. Yesterday (Sunday) she was feeling pretty tired all day. I just thought it was fatigue, and by the time I thought to take her temperature it was 5 pm.
37.4 C
Over the next hour we arranged for a friend to come and look after the kids, and by 6 pm her temperature had reached 38 C and we were on our way into the Emergency department.
At ED her temperature was 37.4 again. They quickly got some bloods and other samples, spoke to the on-call Medical Oncologist and put her on antibiotics. The antibiotics made her nauseous but that settled. This was about 10 pm.
She was transferred to her ward and spent the night. She is still there now (630 am) and is receiving the next antibiotic treatment.
Her white cell count is low, and has been hovering quite low for the last couple of cycles.
She feels ok, and I think she was dehydrated. Just waiting for her to see an MO.
