Three Nights Dogged

Why does that have a slightly familiar ring to it? This is a time we'd certainly like to forget, and never repeat. For three days and nights, incessant bone pain from the Neupogen injections dogged Jordan's every waking hour. He's tried just about everything we could think of - to sleep more than usual, keep up on the pain meds, use a heating pad, warm water soaks, massage, shifting positions, staying off his feet, distracting himself with a movie, and a phone call from a friend. Patient, quiet, kind throughout, still, nothing worked. He was readmitted to the hospital this morning, where the morphine flows freely, and the pain is at last under control.

WBC's inched up to .5; neuts are at .4. Platelets all the way up to 48K on Saturday, slipped to 35K today. We hoped he might either begin some kind of modified treatment tomorrow, or return home. A fever of 101.9 showed up this evening though, nixing any hope of coming home tomorrow. When the doc makes his early morning rounds, we should be able to get off these pins and needles and find out the results of the bone marrow biopsy, and if treatment will indeed begin, or be withheld.