104.8

 On Friday we went in for a blood draw. His platelets came back at 20. They usually infuse if they're below 15. But this isn't our first rodeo, so we emailed his doctors to request an infusion for the next day. They gave us a bit of a hard time (he had another appointment scheduled for Monday, but the last time we waited until Monday his counts were so low they were unreadable), but they finally agreed to get him a blood draw appointment for the next day (Saturday). The only available appointment was at 7 a.m. (Though the hospital seemed to miss that memo since no one was there until almost 7:20). At around 7:30, they took his vitals and realized he had a low grade fever of 100.8. They drew his initial labs, and then let us know they would (eventually) be admitting him since his white count was at 0.05 and his neutrophils (the white blood cell that fights illness) was at 0%. They drew a bunch of blood cultures and did 2 different Covid tests. His platelets came back at 9 (again, why they argued with us about getting him in the next day just makes my blood boil), so they gave him an infusion while they waited for a room to open up. They got him up into a room at about 11. All the Covid tests came back negative, but he didn't test positive for Parainfluenza (the flu). By 2 o'clock his fever was up to 104.8. And for the next five hours we fought to get it back down. They eventually had to put ice packs under his armpits and a cold washcloth on his head. 

They eventually got his fever down to a low grade one (100.5). But he had a rough night and morning with it spiking again. It finally seems to have broken for real today, but now he's just exhausted from the last 24 hours. They've taken a few more blood cultures, and plan to do a CT scan if he gets another fever. They just want to make sure we're not missing anything. But the flu virus can certainly make his fever spike like this. It's likely the fevers will keep happening until his white counts pop back up and his body can fight off the virus.