A slight detour again in the last week. Abigail unfortunately spiked a fever at 8pm last Thursday, so it was back to hospital for another week. This time though it was just to get some IV antibiotics and to undergo closer monitoring. Fortunately, the fever spike was not long-term and after the first night she was fine. The hospital stay had to continue until she was making some neutrophils, hence the week long admission.
Thankfully nothing additional was picked up on our brief trip through the Emergency department. At the time every available space had a bed with a coughing/vomiting/clearly unwell kid in it. Not exactly the best place to be without neutrophils in your blood. Luckily a bed in oncology opened up quickly, so we were only there for 4 hrs or so rather than the 15 they had told us to expect.
Her blood counts are now rising, showing that her bone marrow is recovering from the last round of chemo. Touch wood this should mean that we can stay home until her transplant in a couple of weeks. In the meantime she will still be going back and forwards to the outpatient clinic to get a whole heap of pre-transplant work-ups. However, day trips to the clinic are far more preferable than admissions to the ward, so at this point we'll take that.
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