Day +4: Infection

They told me it was inevitable but even so part of you still hopes it won't happen to you. I am not however a medical miracle so late last night my temperature started to rise slowly but constantly until it got to a high point of 38.5 degrees, at which point they decided they needed to take some action. I was reviewed by the on-call doctor and put immediately onto intravenous broad spectrum antibiotics. So far these seem to have had the desired effect, my temperature has now come down to 37.5. The scarey thought is how quickly these bacteria move to take advantage when your defences are down. The doctors think this may have been a break away faction of Mr Yakult's friendly bacteria high on drink and drugs who got involved in a killing frenzy. The reason for this is that the Melphalan I took (was given) has caused my intestines to become thick and less flexible and therefore prone to tearing allowing those normally tasked with doing good things to turn to the dark side.


The rest of my world: still can't really keep anything down so they're now threatening to start feeding me, which I can't say I'm really happy about. If they can just resolve the nausea things would be so much better all round.