V. is imprisoned in her room. She's having bad diarrhea and they're keeping her isolated until they can determine the cause. Most importantly they have to rule out a nasty bug known as "c.diff". You can read more about it at the following link Vicki e-mailed to me: C. diff: A Hospital Germ on the Warpath - AARP Bulletin Today. Vicki thinks it is just a side effect from the chemo, but they can't give her any medication for it until they're sure. It's highly infectious so she has to stay in her room to protect the other patients.
Her blood counts are low enough that they've started giving her transfusions. Again, this is an expected and necessary development from the chemo killing off her bone marrow. We're entering the phase where she will be increasingly fatigued and vulnerable to infection, but so far so good!
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