[jonwill]

""various causes for the perforated bowel, and some patients just don’t do what the textbooks say - no fever, normal white blood cell count,""

in a case close to me the initial fever was treated with a antibiotic, the fever spiked daily and returned to 98.6 a couple times a day, with NO pain, after a week the family doc did a CT and it was guessed that diverticulitis was the cause

[retMD]

I hope your loved one is well now.