John has been running temps between 102 - 104. So far he has been diagnosed with at least one kind of pneumonia and his doctors are going to keep looking for more with a CAT scan. He'll also be checked out for C-diff.
Not much of an appetite and he couldn't hold down the few bites of fresh fruit at breakfast even though he isn't suffering from nausea. For now he is living on water, ice, and sodas which isn't helping out in the weight department.
An interesting fact we learned from his doctor this morning is that fevers also mess with blood sugars and that low sugars are more of a concern than high-ish sugars. For now, his evening lantus is discontinued. The cidofovir for CMV may be suppressing his blood counts; it will be replaced with phoscarnate which he had the last time he was in the hospital. And, he will get some neupogen to build up the white blood cell count for good measure. His current antibiotics are vancomycin and ceftazidime.
We'd love to be wrong but it seems like we might be here for a while. We are on the third floor, an oncology floor, since the BMT unit is currently full. Wishing everyone there the best outcomes as we keep working toward ours.
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