This past Monday, I made a clinic appointment for Collin because he had been fighting a cold for a few weeks, and for almost a week he had drainage from his eyes. He was given antibiotic eye drops (which he hates!) Yesterday afternoon, he woke up from a nap, shivering and kind of wimpering. He felt warm, so I took his temperature, which was 101.2. I called the oncology office, and was told to bring him to the clinic. Blood was taken to check his counts and for cultures, and one of the oncologists checked him over. The labwork showed his white blood cell count to be elevated which means that he's fighting something. Thankfully we were allowed to come home last night. The fever stayed around 100 overnight and this morning. The cultures haven't grown, so I think he's just fighting a cold. Hopefully his fever will go down soon; I don't want anything to interfere with his surgery next week.
Plans are falling into place for Collin's upcoming treatment. He will have the surgery to insert the ommaya reservoir into his head next Wednesday, February 1. We'll have to be at the hospital very early, and there is a chance that he'll have to stay overnight after the surgery. Bill found an animated video explanation of what an ommaya reservoir is; it can be seen here.
Hopefully the procedure will go smoothly, without complications. I'm sad that his little body will have yet another scar, and that his nice round head will now have a permanent bump in it. The ommaya reservoir isn't typically removed, so Collin will always have it. Hopefully it will be less noticeable once his hair is covering it.
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