Late Thursday evening, 2/7, I was
admitted to hospital with fever, and severe shakes and chills. It turns out my
body was producing an abundance of white blood cells (WBCs), a condition called
peri-engraftment, or engraftment syndrome. The function of white cells is to
attack things, and these were young and inexperienced WBCs who bent themselves
on attacking anything and everything in the body, and creating general
mayhem. After running lots of tests to
exclude other possibilities, things got under control by 2:00 AM Friday.
As a precaution, I was kept in
hospital Friday and Saturday for observation and very lengthy IV infusions of
various antibiotics and things. Sunday I
was released, and I am now back at the Gif of Life House on out patient status
with Mayo.
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