Home, just for a while but magic all the same!

Two great days today and yesterday. Abigail's blood has continued to improve, with white cell counts over 2 (!), platelets continuing to go up and neutrophils hovering at around 0.7-0.8. This is just brilliant and she has now officially engrafted post-BMT.

On a more practical front, she can now leave the isolation room for short periods. This allowed some quick swing time whilst no-one else was around yesterday and a stroll around the hospital grounds. Today we got the all clear to head home for four hours, which was just great. As you can see she pretty much played with every toy she owns and has been missing over the last 5 weeks (dressed on the right as 'Abisaurus' she tells us!). George the monkey was even smuggled back into hospital, as there was no way she was leaving him behind.

As we thought the visit home, whilst quick, seemed to give her a lift too. Her eating and drinking was the best it has been for nigh on a month. It was just nice for everyone to be out of the hospital again. While she is doing very well for BMT, and is in almost all ways at the very good end of the spectrum in terms of how she is coping and recovering, the constant time in hospital and having the family split up has really begun to get tough on everyone.

If she continues to improve and can successfully switch onto taking all of her meds orally (as opposed to IV), there is tentative talk that we might just check out of hospital next week. Fingers crossed.... In the meantime she is having fun and expending all of her energy in these times out of her room, as the last pic shows!