Taxol no.10 with 38.1 temp
Hi lovely ladies, so I woke up this morning after having no sleep due to runny nose, headaches etc. to a temp of 37.8. I was due to have taxol no.10 (plus Herceptin and perjeta) so figured I’d get th...
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Hi again, @JoeyLiz. Hope you have a ward bed by now. Did you ever find out your neutraphil count? And did ypu have an isolation area in ED until you you knew? When I ended up in ED during chemo, the isolation rooms were occupied, so I sat in emergency for nearly 24 hourz waiting for a bed, with neutraphils of 0.02, then 0.01. Feeling rotten, but not really thinking about just how dangerous it was for me.
As for that Registrar, he/she is senior to a Resident, so why ask them for advice? I'd certainly have little faith in that part of the team now.
A d the nurses who let you go home without pushing harder..... lost for words. I know it can be busy, but you came i with a very high temp, at the very least you should have been kept until blood results available.
As someone else maybe @Zoffiel, said, a letter to consumer feedback about the whole debacle, when you feel up to it, may well be in order. Just make sure you jot down some notes about it now, because it's amazing what we forget when we're at our best, let alone now, when you feel like crap.
Hope you're on the mend
As for that Registrar, he/she is senior to a Resident, so why ask them for advice? I'd certainly have little faith in that part of the team now.
A d the nurses who let you go home without pushing harder..... lost for words. I know it can be busy, but you came i with a very high temp, at the very least you should have been kept until blood results available.
As someone else maybe @Zoffiel, said, a letter to consumer feedback about the whole debacle, when you feel up to it, may well be in order. Just make sure you jot down some notes about it now, because it's amazing what we forget when we're at our best, let alone now, when you feel like crap.
Hope you're on the mend