This has been an interesting night. Andrew woke up a little before 2AM vomiting in his bed. His temperature was 99.5, but within half an hour it went up to 102.8. We contacted the on call hematologist/oncologist at U of M, and she advised us to go to the nearest emergency room. She called ahead to Troy Beaumont, and they were ready for us before we got there.
They drew blood and did chest x-rays on Andrew. The blood counts came back fine(the white blood cells were even elevated), and the x-ray and examination were normal. They did a couple of blood cultures that we will find out about tomorrow. The nurses gave Andrew an anti-nausea medicine, an IV antibiotic, and Tylenol and Motrin for his fever. Around 6:30 the fever broke, and he was discharged a little after 7.
The doctors think that it is probably a viral infection, but it could also be due to a variety of other factors, such as remnants from the respiratory infection he had this past week, the flu shot booster he got this morning, or an infection in his line from when it was accessed Friday.
He is upstairs getting some sleep. Hopefully the antibiotic will take care of whatever the infection was, and he will be fine to go trick or treating around the block tonight.
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