Darn those fevers!

Well we almost made a complete week out of the hospital.

With the exception of the first couple days following the "nasty" round of chemo Christopher has been feeling really good all week. This morning, however, he woke up with an excruciating headache complete with a fever of 103.2. We were hoping the shot he got last week would help keep his counts up and fevers down (you'd think so at $3,500 a pop!).

In any case he is back at Nemours getting fluids and antibiotics via IV and it looks like he will be admitted to Wolfson's this afternoon. as his counts dropped from 9,570 to 42. When the fever is down for over 24 hours and the counts go back up at least to 500, providing there is no infection he can go home.

Monday he is due to go back to Mayo to have his stitches removed. He is still doing very well adjusting to his "stump" but is anxious for the prosthetic which should be in about another month if all is healing according to plan.

I don't think he is physically feeling quite as yucky as he looks in the picture but mentally he is probably feeling much worse. The fevers are always a big downer after you think you are in the clear for a while.

I want to thank Debbie and Jane for going the extra mile and contacting the boys from Lincoln Park...Chris is sporting the hoodie they sent him and has framed the autographed album cover.

It was a huge bright spot in his day!

As always and as Chris has said earlier, we appreciate all the love and encouragement from family and friends. We feel truly blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people.

Peace, Patty