Leo's infection seems to be responding to the anti-biotics so that's good news. One more lot of IV anti-biotics tomorrow and he should be able to have a hospital free week or so, unless he spikes a temperature, or his eye gets worse.
His right eye (the tumour is on that side) has been blood shot for weeks now and getting worse, and today he seems to be closing it even when he's doing normal things. Of course, our concern is that it's clearly not an infection as he's been on anti-biotics and had anti-biotic cream and eye drops for the past four weeks. With such a blood shot eye which is now causing him problems, is there something going on behind the eye / in the optic nerve / in the tissue around the eye, which is causing Leo such problems? Good questions, but no-one seems to have an answer which is mightily frustrating and upsetting. We were brushed off with a nurse at a walk-in clinic telling us he had conjunctivitis a few days before he was diagnosed, when actually it was cancer, so we're desperate for someone to find out why his eye is like this now.
Let's hope his eye gets better and is just a symptom of his cold and the radiotherapy, although as I write that, I know it might not be as with a cold, you'd have bilateral problems with your eyes not just one eye, and the radiotherapy was also bilateral for 24 of the 28 sessions??? Answers on a postcard...
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