Today is day 11 of my first cycle of chemotherapy. Today is also day 2 of my first little hiccup.

Yesterday I was feeling okay but had started to develop a sore throat and headache. We knew that day 10 was when my cell counts would bottom out from the chemotherapy. What we didn’t know was how scary a mild fever of 100.5 could feel. Caleb and I were warned about neutropenic fevers and that 10% ended up lethal, especially if you didn’t get to the ER immediately. This is one of the reasons Dr. Ravi had asked us to stay for the entire first cycle, to watch my labs to see how my body would react to the chemotherapy. I didn’t really feel that sick but feeling sick at all on the lowest day of the cycle had me a little terrified. Thankfully, we got to the ER within 10 minutes of the fever. The fever itself actually began to go down on its own before we’d even made it up to the room. 

So, today I am currently a patient on the 22nd floor. I’m feeling a bit better but they can’t release me until my white blood cell count starts to recover…which could be tomorrow or the day after. But I’m not going to let that shake my smile. I’m here and pretty healthy considering. The only thing that hurts my heart is that it may interfere with when I thought I could travel home to see my kiddos (who keeping telling me they want me home NOW!) I’m going to keep doing what I’m supposed so I can get out of here sooner rather than later.

The only thing I’m really worried about at this point is how this little hiccup is going to affect the next 5 cycles coming up. I don’t want to stay down here the whole time, but I also don’t want to give up on my best chance of kicking this thing to the curb for good.

Caleb and I are going to have some hard decisions coming up. We meet with Dr. Ravi on the 15th so hopefully he will have some insight for us as well.

Thanks for following along and for all the love and prayers!