Day +18

Things here are going fairly well. Counts continue to improve daily, Today's counts: WBC 2.7 and the ANC is 2.4. She needed platelets this morning because they were at 9. She will probably need red cells later this week as her hemoglobin is at 9.7, but she hasn't had red cells in quite a while. She is doing better and better every day. Let's see so far some improvements are, Counts of course, her mouth is slowly getting better, her weight is better under control, they have upped the lasix, it's still 4xs a day, but a higher dose. Her weight went from 32.2 kilo's down to 30.7...her breathing has improved too! She is doing the spiromentry thingy 3 xs a day. She was only able to get it up to 500, which is the lowest on there and now she is getting it up to 1000!! We talked to the BMT fellow this afternoon and they said they were very impressed with Amelia's progress as far as the walking. She walked the hallways 3 times yesterday, they say that one trip around the hall is 1 10th of a mile. Yesterday she walked it 3xs, two in a row and then one later that night. Today she had a busy day she had a shower at 1:00 and then a dressing change then we got her out and walked the hall and then to the playroom where she sat till almost 4. Then we made our way back to the room where she was ready to crawl into bed, which she did and then....the dang pesky fever came creeping back. That is our biggest fight right now the darn fevers, every single day! We will go back down on maybe Friday to do another CT scan to see how the fluid in the lungs are.
Well I am being interrupted by Nater to play on the computer so I guess I better run....
Blessings!