Little Update

On Thursday, they decided to stop the IV Antibiotics, and let me wing it for a few days. I still have a fever and still felt pretty crappy until about Saturday (Still way better then during chemo recovery crappy).

Since it is possible that the Antibiotics themselves were giving me the fever, and making me feel bad, the decision was that we would give my own immune system have a go at it.

The cough is back with a vengeance though, and I am living on Menthol. I am back again on Thursday for a CT scan at 7:30, and then up to LBMT for bloodwork, and the decision as to when to start the next round - It is looking like Monday.

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