Feb 19 Day 15/30 - Fever is vulnerable to antibiotics..

Docs are not sure that this is a chemo fever. They are looking for signs of infection, but haven't found anything definitive yet. Last night Jessie's fever bounced around from 101-102.6 depending on her Tylenol level. This morning after her Tylenol, her fever came down until her temperature was normal! As soon as the Tylenol wore off, her temperature started on the rise again, but didn't seem to go as high as last night. I am hopefully that whatever infection she has is susceptible to the antibiotics. She sat up this morning while feeling better and ate 1/2 a bagel. I forced fed her a few bites of the "scanty" shake which was ordered by the nutritionist. It is a sweet vanilla ice cream shake with extra calories, vitamins, minerals and protein. She said it was too sweet and had a funny after taste. I had to bribe her with Dr. Pepper, seeing Colin tomorrow, etc... to get her to eat a few bites. It's been a long time since I've had to play open the hanger and let the airplane in!!!

Her platelets were down to 13 last night so they gave her the max dose of platelets IV that just finished. They still have her on all four antibiotics, the anti-fungal and the zantac. Feels like we are moving in the right direction today.

8pm- update: fever came back all day today from 10am-7pm even with Tylenol every four hours. For some reason after the 6 pm dose of Tylenol, her fever came down, she drank 1/2 of her frozen mango smoothie from the other day and is now even taking a shower! Earlier she could barely get out of bed. This is crazy.
Hope the good times come for longer!!

 Thanks to everyone for prayers and support!!