May 3rd

Hello.

We've made it past the weekend and his temperature is still elevated in the evenings (100.7 - 101.8). We called St Agnes yesterday to find out what needed to be done. Waited until 4pm for Jim to talk with Dr Sardi. He was told to see his primary care doctor about the fever and to get a CT scan done to see if he has an abscess inside. That was not a problem since he was to see his primary care doctor anyway because of the Procrit shot and hemoglobin count needed to be done today. Didn't need to hear about a possible abscess (already worried about the temp now an added worry about an abscess)...

After his appointment with his primary care doctor at 10:30 am, Jim is now driving to St Agnes (because his doctor doesn't know the case history and doesn't know what to do for Jim). Plus he didn't get his Procrit shot (which now needs to be done at St Agnes).

I called Robin to gripe about the situation. Turns out Dr Sardi thought Jim was in Enola (not Oxford) and thought it was a shorter distance than going to Baltimore. Understandable, but very worrying for Jim... Also complained about the lack of a contact person for over the weekend. Was told that we were to have called the main hospital number where we would have been connected with the person on-call... Explained that I had called the main hospital number, but had to leave a message with Patient Records (since that was where I was directed). Told Robin that it would be good to put on the release form, who to contact during weekend hours... Jim was really worried over the weekend because of the fever...

That's where we are now... Will update as soon as I know anything more....