Good news...Leo's neutrophils came up from 0.05 on Sunday to 1.02 yesterday (Monday) and 7.01 today so that's awesome. The GCSF has worked a treat and done what they needed to do by stimulating Leo's bone marrow to produce the white blood cells needed to fight infection. Now they've done this, his chest looks better and he's started to perk up a bit.
Good news number 2...Leo can start chemo as planned on Friday for 48 hours as a result of him being better.
Bad news...his stay at hospital will be until at least next Wednesday so 17 days in total for this visit as he needs to have 10 days of the antibiotics he is on and they have to be given via the IV as they're more effective.
Good news number 3...Leo copes very well with being in hospital. He actually quite likes it I think, probably because he has spent more time there since returning to the UK than here at Clic House or anywhere else. Plus he probably now feels comfortable there as he is in control and knows what's going on. It's amazing how quickly three year old's learn to cope and get on with things.
Thank you so much for all your messages and comments on the Blog over the last few days. We've also had lots of packages arriving for Leo at Clic House courtesy of lots of wonderful and generous people including Miss Gillian, Leo's Head at King's College Murcia and some beautiful ifts from PJ's lovely cousins Down Under. We're trying to stagger the opening of such lovely gifts as he is spoilt rotten right now, and rightly so! However what we're doing now is keeping the gifts back so as he can open them when he has earned enough stars on his Rewards Chart. He gets stars for letting the doctors and nurses do what they have to do, plus for doing his teeth twice a day, having his ob's done etc. So if you don't get an immediate response when you've sent a gift, it's because we're waiting for stars on the chart!
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