Snoopy has the mange!

Anyway, Snoopy's mange is the excuse Woody is giving for the condition of his pillowcase. The doctor suggested that Woody call the vet so the vet (nurse) could take care of the mange (with some clippers). But, Woody wasn't ready for the clippers...yet! (You probably need to click on the picture to make it bigger so you can see the condition of Woody's white pillowcase.)

This has been an interesting day. When I got to the hospital this morning, the nurse was preparing things for Woody to get platelets. About an hour after he got platelets he got a unit of red blood cells and after the first unit of red blood cells he got another unit of red blood cells. He was connected to an IV for a good percentage of the day. Later this afternoon, he started running a fever higher than is allowed when he is neutropenic...meaning that when it gets that high...and I'm not sure how high that is due to it being quoted in metrics...I'm not sure if it is 1oo.4 or 101.4...anyway, it got high enough that they had to start calling in his doctors, the infectious disease team, chest x-ray, lots of blood work, etc. He definitely didn't feel the greatest this afternoon...mainly just tired and he could tell that he had a fever. He will be getting a different antibiotic...probably two.

My feeling about why this is happening...the red blood infusions...the last time that he got red blood cells, he ran a fever and had to go through all this extra testing...I did tell the infectious disease team that was my guess!

As far as his counts, the creatinine level is back into the normal range...that is good! His neutrophils doubled from yesterday...again a good sign. So some things are heading in the right direction.