Why.......

After returning home from San Antonio on Tuesday evening, Leticia started to get the chills and was extremely fatigued. She had a fever of 103.4 that night and was prescribed some antibiotics to take care of it-case closed-right? Wrong. Temperature continued to yo-yo the next day and she felt like she was back on chemo treatment with as bad as her body was reacting. We had her blood tested as well as some other tests done and there is definitely an infection somewhere in her body as her white blood cell count was extremely high. She also has a partially collapsed lung. Unable to get herself admitted to the hospital, we decided to continue the prescribed methods and to see if she could at least be comfortable. On Thursday, she had a scheduled check up with her surgeon who had performed her double mastectomy back in January of 2011. The surgeon, Dr. Viney, was adamant that if her temp spikes back to 102-103 range that she get to the hospital immediately. Thursday night at 10 pm her temp was back up there so I called 911 and had the ambulance come get her. I don't think I could have gotten her to the hospital on my own. She was treated for sepsis but it came back negative and that has been the only postive thing that has happened since Tuesday. She has massive bouts with being cold that were lasting an hour each time-you couldnt put enough blankets on her. Once we were in the emergency room, they ran another X-ray and saw that she still had problems with the lung and ran the ct scan here and they believe that they have found the infection in the left breast-extremely deep in the tissue. There are no outward signs of the infection other than the fever so it is discouraging to say the least. They are continuing to pump antibiotics into her to get this infection to subside and get rid of this temp. Her appetite is non existent and she is generally just feeling miserable. I dont believe that she will be released until next week-Monday would be the earliest that they said they would release her. I will keep you updated......Brian