Jour +17: no fever!

Sorry not to have posted recently. Claude hasn't had a fever for 3 days, and the new theory is that the fever may have been from the c. difficile not a lung infection. The doctors decided not to do a bronchoscopy today; we were relieved about that because it sounded like an unpleasant procedure, with some risks involved. He is feeling nauseous and weak today and hasn't been able to eat or drink much. He's getting the second dose of an iv anti-fungal medication tomorrow morning. The side effects include violent trembling, teeth chattering, etc. The first dose was during the night, so I didn't witness the dramatic effects, but it was loud enough (bed shaking, teeth rattling) that Claude's next door neighbour paged a nurse! Demerol stops the shaking pretty quickly, and this time he will be more prepared for the symptoms and will ask for it sooner . . . We are still waiting for his white blood cell count to start coming back up -- day 21 still seems like a long way off.