Hi @shels93, I know the anxiety of an unexplained fever when on chemotherapy. It isn’t uncommon for that to happen several days after the last chemo treatment.

For your husband this is occurring during his off-treatment week and his blood numbers, before the transfusions, were quite low. That is when there is a possibility of a neutropenic fever. There often is no discernible cause but all precautions such as getting him back to the hospital for observation and possibly antibiotics is important. So he’s in the right place.

It looks like the transfusions helped elevate his red blood count and his platelets. But the WBC will have to regenerate on its own. Fairly frequently after Chemo, patients are given a medication to help promote WBC generation such as Neulasta. It can help prevent the possibly of infections due to the low WBC. Do you know if he was given Neulasta?

I’m expecting with some of the blood work his doctors ordered today that they also did a blood culture to check for bacterial infections. Those results can take a few days to return. He may also receive some prophylactic antibiotics if his fever persists.

Wish I had better news for you but this is not uncommon to have an unexplained fever and needing transfusions of RBC and platelets.He should start feeling better as his WBC count starts increasing again. How has he been doing otherwise? Are his doctors encouraged with his treatments?