Urgent advice - husband has a fever 6 days after chemo.

Hi. I hope you got through and he’s on his way to hospital. 
The doctors will get his temperature down and he should be able to have his RT. 
Let us know how he got on. And sorry I wasn’t around sooner. 

Hi hope you’ve got through I had a special number to call if my temperature went up at Leeds cancer centre. Don’t worry about radiotherapy they will get him there to have his radiotherapy. I know a few whi have been admitted and still had radiotherapy. 
hugs 
Hazel 

Thanks so much both of you. I’m here in an and E with him. They have rushed him through to do bloods and start him on antibiotics. Will keep you posted x

Glad you’ve got him to a & e never ideal but he’s in best place. 
Hazel x

Hi Worrylo

Hope all goes well for your husband.

I was admitted to hospital for dehydration on week 4 of my radiotherapy and was in for a week. During that time they took me to my radiotherapy session every day as it was in the same hospital. It was a godsend really as it got me back on top of things with pain relief and I did not lose weight at all because of their intervention.

Lyn

Worrylo said:

They have rushed him through to do bloods and start him on antibiotics.

Morning. Hope he's settled.

I was in hospital to get rehydrated and get an NG tube placed. It was over new year and a weekend so I was stuck there for a few days. One night a young lady came onto the ward in the middle of the night. By morning she was quite her normal self. She told us that she was on chemo for breast cancer and she had spiked a neutropenic fever of 40 and had been blue lighted to hospital. A&E had a competition going to see who would ever admit the highest temperature . They might delay or abandon his chemo. It depends on how low his white cells are.

Hi Worrylo

Best place is hospital at this time, cancer triage ward?  decisions will be made there concerning his radio treatment

Best of luck

Peter

I had this 6 days after the last chemo (6 in total). Temp 37.5. Thought 'lets see' An hour later 38. Talked to my wife, phoned chemo for advice (chemo was in a different hospital to our local one), put a few things together. Temp 39. Went to local A+E.

They isolated me straight away, put me in a side room in a corridor in A+E, put in iv antibiotics and spent 17h trying to get me admitted, succeeding at 2am. By the next morning I was pretty much fine.