Morning report

Just talked with Vlad. His temp is 98.7 this morning. He woke up last night in a sweat. His T-shirt was wringing wet and Ruby disconnected his lines so he could change T-shirts.

Conlon came by at 6:30 a.m., but no numbers were (are) available from this morning's blood draw. Vlad told him since his temp was normal he was ready to go home. But Conlon's no fun. However he's on call this weekend, so Vlad plans to bug him about going home every single day.

Conlon said the dramatic platelet drop (from 15,000 to 4,000 in a couple of hours yesterday) isn't unusual for a neutropenic patient with a fever. Vlad also had red spots on one arm, like a rash, pop up about 11 a.m. yesterday. That was because of the platelet drop, Conlon said today.

Anyway, neutropenia sucks. In case you didn't know.