Yesterday afternoon, Tony asked if I could run and get him some Tylenol from the store. I came back and gave him the Tylenol, and then I sat down next to him and put my hand on his arm. It was really hot. So I felt his forehead and then ran to get the thermometer. He had a fever. We called down to Huntsman and they asked us to get him to an ER right away. For the first time ever, they gave us permission to go to the ER that is right around the corner from our house instead of making the hour and a half drive down to Salt Lake City. We arrived to the ER and they immediately got us back into a room. Because his white count is basically zero, it can be really dangerous for him to have a fever, depending on what is causing it. So they ran a litany of tests. Half a dozen blood cultures, half a dozen standard blood tests, a chest x-ray, a urine sample. Everything was drawn and read before we would have made it to Salt Lake City. Everything came back negative for infections (except the blood cultures because they take 24-48 hours to show results, so we're still waiting on those).
Because we had given him Tylenol, his fever disappeared. In the end, they decided to let us go home and just check his temperature often. If the fever came back, they instructed us to come back to the hospital. Luckily, he was able to get a decent night sleep, and I checked for a fever 9 times throughout the night and it never spiked back up.
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