How annoying, that fever just keeps coming back. I had an elevated temperature last night, and then once again this morning. Whenever I spike a fever they give me tylenol, which brings it down. But it seems that effect never lasts very long.
Apparently, they saw something on my in-room x-ray they took a few days ago. However, since they used a portable machine to take the images, they could not determine what it was. The infectious disease specialists Dr. M mumbled something vague about possibly pneumonia or perhaps a "soft tissue density" -- whatever that is. Since I keep spiking fevers, they now want me to have a CAT scan to determine the nature of that "something" on the x-ray more precisely. The problem is, though, that I am allergic to the contrast medium they really should give me for the scan. So I suppose they'll have to take mine without contrast.
Hence, the good news is that they still haven't found anything -- and the bad news is that they still haven't found anything, i.e. no explanation for my recurring fever. What a bummer... I'm getting very, very tired of this "stump the doctor" thing...
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Hopefully you'll unstump the doctor soon (and in a way that indicates all is well and your body just decided to randomly have a fever for a while). Now that I'm home, I'm online more, and on skype too, so I'll keep an eye out for you if you get bored and want to chat. I know how boring hospitals can get!
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