For the past 10 days Eric has not been feeling well. A week ago it was so bad that he contacted his cancer doctor about getting a CT scan. Dr. C called and said that his scan looked fine. Eric continued to have high fevers of 102, loss of appetite, etc Tuesday night Eric's temperature reached 104. I told him it was time to go in and get looked at. I convinced him to go to insta care. While there the doctor said that with Erics extensive history and lack of equipment that he needed to be seen at the ER. That did not sit well with Eric as he is going to school full time and didnt want this to trigger more doctor appointments. I drove to the ER anyway. As we were checking in Eric almost refused to be seen. He wasnt in any pain so he didnt think it was necessary. After some nudging I got him to consent. SHEESH! They were pretty quick about getting blood work done, IV going, chest xray and CT scan done. The CT scan showed some fluid in his belly and swollen lymph nodes around his liver. Eric's white blood cell count was 23.1 and they saw abnormal cells as well...blast and smudge. All things combined the signs were pointing towards leukemia. If that was the case they were going to send us up to LDS hospital. They kept Eric over night to keep the fever under control, and they gave him antibiotics.
Wednesday morning the pathologist took a closer look at Eric's blood work. He didnt think that Eric had leukemia. Erics red blood cells and platelets looked good. Instead he thought that Eric might be fighitng mono or influenza. Eric was transfered to the oncology floor. He had a nose swab done to check for those. We didnt have the results yet so I went home to take care of Landry and get some rest. (Tayvia went with my parents) They had Eric on an IV of fluids and an antibiotic. His fever wasnt being touched with tylenol so they were going to try something stronger.
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