Slight correction

My sister, who is the doctor I trust the most over all the other doctors in all the world, read my last post and texted me that chemo does cause fever. And she has a good description of why.

She says “It happens all the time from the body’s inflammatory response to cell death.” Yikes. Cell death. That is what chemo does. My sister is very down-to-earth and straightforward and tells it how it is.

She also said that it’s less likely to get a fever at the third month instead of the first month, but still quite possible. The other likely possibility is that this isn’t the first time I’ve had a fever. I hadn’t regularly been taking my temperature.

The reason I took my temp a couple of weeks ago was my appetite abruptly disappeared, which has NEVER happened in my entire life (except when acutely nauseous of course). It’s the bizarrest thing, to feel so negative about food for days on end, for no apparent reason. John would fix various nice things trying to get me to eat, and it was like he was handing me a piece of paper and expecting me to eat it.

When my appetite completely disappeared like that I was astounded, and my shock prompted me to take my temperature. Because like, what in the world was going on, right? I no longer want food. Was the world coming to an end? But I could have had a fever for the entire last three months, for all I know. I never thought to check.

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