Jim is in the hospital. He was having a very hard time breathing and a low grade temperature. We took him to the ER last night and he was admitted at 12AM to CDH. He has pneumonia and at this point that is all I know. I will be heading over there soon and have a call in to Dr. Mehta, our oncologist at Northwestern to see where we go from here.
I will post something later, once I have more information. Pray! Pray! Pray!
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Patty, Hi there...finally figured how to get this set up.... have they done blood cultures on his lines? Document when they flush lines and if there is a correlation to line flushing and fever spikes. If the blood cultures on lines are negative - still document when they flush with saline and heparin and when fevers spike. In 10/06 Lance was hospitalized and for an entire week his cultures on lines came up negative but yet we started to notice when they flushed lines within 15 minutes he would develop the riggors and his fever would spike to 103. It took us a week to convince them to pull the lines...our instict was the lines were infected...and we were right they were. As soon as they pulled the lines his temperature normalized. With the pneumonia that throws in a kink in not knowing what it is....are they doing additional cultures for virus' and bacteries? Lance developed a virus...called CMV reactivation which has settled in his lungs. Just throwing out ideas as to what to ask as far as what they are doing....but don't assume it's the pneuomonia causing the high fever...it very well may be but may be his line or a multitude of other things.
Praying for you.
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