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Hello everyone,

I had to go the ER Wednesday night due to a high fever, chills, body aches, headache and just didn't feel right.

So, it ended up that I had pneumonia in both lungs. They gave me antibiotics by IV twice a day and let me come home today.

Of course I was supposed to have Herceptin on Thursday and they did not want me to have it due to the fever. I will be seeing my onc next week and they said she will discuss the herceptin with me at that time. They were not able to determine if this was viral or bacterial, but leaned toward bacterial.

I finished radiation a week ago this past Wednesday. This has been a bummer because now I'm off my herceptin schedule and I only had 3 left........

They also gave me Levaquin orally each day and I'm to take this for 7 more days at home.

The weird thing to me was the chest x-ray did not show the pneumonia but when they did the chest CT they found it.

Can't believe I made it through chemo and radiation and then this happened. It hit me so suddenly. I had been fatigued, but expected that due to the radiation, but this hit me quickly and my fever rose to 102.5 within an hour.

Has anyone experienced this? I honestly did not know you could "catch" pneumonia but I guess it goes to show my immune system is still out of whack!

The good thing that happened was the oncologist who I spoke to at the after hours emergency number, alerted the ER I was on the way and I didn't have to wait at all.

They also did another ECHO and my heart is still in good shape.

Aw, this cancer journey.....never a dull moment.