Back to the hospital

Jen's fever went above 100.4 so she called IPOP and they told her to come in and be admitted to the hospital. They are worried there might be some infection somewhere in her body, so they have started her on IV antibiotics and did a CT scan of her chest and sinuses (which was negative). She had the chills and was feeling uncomfortable (tight throat, achy) but they gave her a Tylenol and she feels much better now - she is even hungry again. They did a throat culture this morning and a blood culture just now. It will be 48 hours before they get the results of the blood culture, but if there is something nasty in there they will know in as little as 10 hours. Jen's plattlets are below the threshold, so they are setting up to give her plattlets. I guess the red blood cells are ok right now, but I haven't seen the numbers. Chances are she will need red blood cells in the next day or so.

Although we were hopeing Jen wouldn't have to go back to the hospital, many HiCy patients do have to be readmitted. Jen feels fine now that she has a Tylenol in her so it almost seems silly to be here, but the risk of infection is very high so it is best to be careful. She will probably be here for 2 or more days, or until her fever goes down. There are various scenarios that would cause her to be here longer, but nobody seems overly worried about her. They are all just following the protocol.