Mom is feeling a bit better. She is still in the hospital. Her doctor had been on vacation and finally came back Tuesday evening. He was surprised that she had pneumonia and that no one (the doctors filling in for him) had given her an anti-nausea medication via IV. He also said that the notes that were taken on her chart over the last week or so were not thorough, and therefore, even when he was calling in and the nurses were reading the chart to him over the phone, no one told him that she had pneumonia or that she was so sick. Mom is glad he is back and feels like there is finally a plan for her care.
Prior to him returning, we had started to make plans for her to move to Mayo, but now that he is here she wants to wait out this week and see how it goes.
On Monday we had been told (by a different doctor) that they were putting off the chemo until she was better. But Dr. Boente said that he was going to schedule the chemo for Friday or Saturday anyway. He said that this dose of chemo does would not lower her white blood cell count, and so, with the anti-biotic she would still be able to fight off the pneumonia. Then she'll have 3 more weeks till the next round which will effect her white blood cell count, but hopefully she'll be over the pneumonia by then.
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