Back to the ER

We learned over the weekend that Sawyer was (is) severely neutropenic and needed to restrict his contact with others. Perhaps we were made aware of this a bit late since he was running a low grade fever most of Saturday and into Sunday. By the time the visiting nurse came Sunday evening, his temp was over 101. We called the hospital and Laurie took him to the Strong Memorial ER. At the ER his temp was 102 so he was administered an antibiotic and admitted. We were hoping to avoid another admission before moving on to the interim maintenance phase, but here we are and continuing to hope for the best.

Laurie sent several updates this morning noting that Sawyer's temp is dropping and that his monocytes are high. That latter is an indication that his ANC should be improving over the next several days and he should be able to begin the next round of treatment within the next week or two.