Hello~
Quick update with the recent activities in the Marsey house. Wednesday night Chris started this month's chemotherapy treatment. Friday he saw his primary care doctor because his blood pressure has been low and we wanted to see if his meds needed adjusting. Doctor took him off one of the bp meds. On Saturday, Chris developed a fever just as he had last month during his chemo treatment. Tylenol helped to keep the temp in the high 99's to low 100's. Sunday night was the last of the 5 nights of chemo. Yesterday I talked to Dr. Green about the fever. Dr. Green said he doesn't recall having any other patients who complained of fever while taking the Temodar, but wasn't extremely concerned about it. By this morning I had expected the temp to be back to normal, and if not normal than close to normal. So, you can imagine my surprise and concern when his temp this morning was 102.9, he was more confused than he has been in quite awhile and he started to slur his speech again. Back to Colton to see Dr. Smith who had openings in his schedule this morning. Labs, Chest xray and EKG were done. The EKG was normal and the chest xray was clear. The labs came back with mixed results, most significantly it showed a problem with the kidney function. However, due to the symptoms described along with the intermittent fever, Dr. Smith was concerned that there may be a pulmonary embolism. He wanted to do a CT angiogram to rule the embolism but couldn't do it because of the affect of the contrast on the kidney function, so he ordered a VQ scan instead. We drove out to Fontana, Chris had the VQ scan and the doctor who read the scan said there was a very low probability of a pulmonary embolism. The kidney function remains a problem though, so tomorrow morning we will go bak to see Dr. Smith and the creatinine level drawn again. If the result is still bad, we'll decide from there what to do.
Check back here for updates after we see the doctor tomorrow.
Love, CJSRJ
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