Saturday 6th February 2010

Luke and Murray had an uneventful night sleeping for about 6 hours. Amy and I also had a nice sleep in this morning.

They haven't given Luke any Maxalon for nausea today and he feels great and boy has he got his appetite back with a vengeance today!!! He ate all his breakfast/lunch / snacks and dinner. He then had about 3 pieces of homemade pizza that his Aunty Nat had made. He loved it!
His weight this morning was 79.5kg so he's put on nearly a kilo in a day. I'm interested in seeing the scales tomorrow after all this food. His appetite coming back is due to a combination of factors: steroids should be increasing his appetite, haemaglobin increasing, he doesn't have chemo today and tomorrow and currently doesn't need nausea medication.

His blood levels are really good today also.
Haemaglobin - 96 / White Cell Count 1.7 / Platelets 35 / Neutrophils 1.20.

As you will see things will continue going on a bit of a roller coaster with levels moving up and down daily. The good thing about these readings is that his neutrophils are up so he is not in the true danger zone of being susceptible to infections.

Luke has been on the drip since he came in and everytime he needs to go to the loo he needs to be unplugged and his machine wheeled behind him. As he is drinking heaps himself now, they decided to take him off the drip. Luke was really excited this afternoon when he could get off the bed and go to the loo himself without having to ask to be unplugged. Lets hope good days like this outway the bad days.