As you can see by the picture....I am still not feeling great.  I just thought I would give you the quick "readers digest" version of what's been going on.

 

     Last Thurs (Feb. 22nd) I started to feel chills so I went to bed to try to warm up.  2hrs later I had a fever of 38.5.  Now when you are doing the chemo part of your treatment they tell you if you get a sustained temp of 28..come into emerg so they can see what's causing it.  Now having 6 wks (ish) past chemo I didn't know if the same guidelines applied.  I have been getting to the hospital and by the time I get there (20 min drive) I end up getting there and being symptom free more times they I can shake a fist at SOOOO...I was going nowhere until it was WELL established and I felt pretty sure that it would still be there when I arrived. Now I must mention that my boob incision had started to "pink up" from the radiation but this was nuts.  It was sooooo inflamed that I looked like I had a boccee ball stuck to the front of me.  It was so swollen, hot, stretched and almost purple the burn looked so red.  My scar was stretched so much that you couldn't tell it was a scar, it just felt line smooth normal skin.  I  discovered about 2am that suddenly could not put any weight on my right arm without the "curling iron" searing pain going beyond that 1-10 scale...sounds fun right??   (I am sleeping in the living room again as the radiation burn is making it uncomfortable to sleep) Now picture me reaching for a phone (lucky it was on my bed) soI could  phoning VoR (sound asleep) upstairs to come down and help me roll over and eventually get up for a potty break.  This hurt WAY worse the the actual surgery...not impressed to say the least!!! So as the night went on my fever finally spiked at 40.1 (104)...but I insisted that we still hang around at home...undecided as to whether I wanted to do that emergency merry-go-round again...but in the end decided to go in and my fever just sat at 39.9 for the next few hours but all my blood work, chest xray came back clear with only an elevated white blood count of 12.2 (10 is high normal) so the consensis was that I am fighting some infection but no one know what and they refuse to put me on antibiotics until someone can figure out the cause.  I spent the rest of the that weekend with a fever and just feeling more or less yucky....lucky me it has continued on everyday since with a few hours of fever and then it's gone.....now  I have successfully added a deep cough to the mix just for fun. Okay....this is more detailed then I planned but now I am POOPED and coughing soooooo.....

 

TO BE CONTINUED...