Horrible weekend

I just wanted to let everyone know that on Friday I wasn't feeling well a week after my first email and I did not eat my dinner and wasn't feeling hungry. I then started to have a fever and it graduated to a fever of hundred .100.5by 11:30 PM.
As per my instructions from the oncologist I was told to go straight to the emergency room. I come to find out after being admitted my white blood cell count was all the way down to zero. Yes I said zero. I could not believe that. Since Friday I have been here in the hospital trying to rebuild my white blood cell count back. I had felt fine all week and had no symptoms until the evening when igota fever and no appetite. My white blood cell count was only coming back up slowly. It's slowly trickling each night so I am waiting to possibly go home tomorrow. They did not find any causeor infection from the white blood count being so low. So I am left to believe it was just a fluke as the doctor said or it could happen again. I am very thankful I recognized the signs of me feeling a little off balance and just went straight to the emergency room. They are sticking with the chemo still on Friday. My mass has almost completely gone down as its barely palpable anymore. So I am very thankful for that. I just thought I will let you all know in case you're wondering where I was. I had so many antibiotics over the past few days and had red man syndrome which I absolutely hated which was a side effect from one of the antibiotics. So hopefully I'll have a good rest the week after my discharge tomorrow.

So sorry you're having to go thru all this, Tracy.  Wishing you a good week ahead  at home with your WBC back in the normal range.

Hi Tracy- The same thing happened to me all the way through chemo. I went to the nospital the first time it happened to me and the rest of the time I would lock myself away from everyone in my house for a few days. My wbc dropped to zero also in spite of getting the neulasta shot.

Tracy,

Tracy,

I don't understand how this happened. You think it was because I work myself too hard around the seventh day when my white blood count was supposed to be at the lowest? I was feeling fine and I was moving furniture and I didn't feel like anything was wrong. So I don't know what caused it. They never found an infection or anything that cost white blood count drop to zero.

Also how will I know how many lymph nodes are affected?. Will I to have to wait until I have my surgery done after chemo?Before chemoI had an MRI with the dye that showed no lymph nodes affected but they said that doesn't mean there is no cancer there so I was just curious how will I know how many nodes they will take out and what the overall prognosis is going to be? I noticed as of today my lump is not palpable anymore which I'm very very very happy about. Thanks in advance.

Tracy,

Hi Tracy,

Edited by ctlindah - Jun 18 2013 at 9:45am

I also read litearature that said if you get a lumpectomy you are still more at risk for a local reoccurence but my dr said it was the saime no matter what you get mastectomy or lumpectomy. can anyone clarify? If thats the case I might as well just had the mastectomy already. I am going through chemo before in hopes to shrink it enough to save my breast but whats the point if there is still is a greater chance of local and then I would be forced into mastectomy. I guess its's too late now. I hate now knowing how many nodes are affected since my surgery won't be until after. Will they do any more mri or dye scans in between the first chemo and last. Before i started I had 0 nodes they could see on the mri but that doesnt mean there is residual cancer. Honestly I am still just overwhelmed. Even before bed tonight. I had a nice smoothie with spinach, carrots, bluberrries  and mixed frozen fruit with my super boost powder that came with the machine.

Edited by tracyinva - Jun 19 2013 at 12:46am