Tuesday 13th April 2010

I thought I had better give everyone an update on Luke.
We thought he would have been out of hospital on Saturday but unfortunately for some unknown reason they wanted him to stay till Sunday. So he is now back home and very glad to be back in his own bed!

It was Amy's birthday on Sunday and we had a family get together on Saturday for her. That way Amy and I could have a girly shopping day on the Sunday with all of her birthday money. Luke was able to get a leave pass from the hospital for a few hours on the Saturday afternoon.

Luke's not feeling too bad but his energy levels are still really low and his nausea and stomach cramps are coming in waves. They did increase all of his blood levels with various injections and since coming home he has changed to oral antibiotics for the infection. He doesn't appear to have any signs of the infection any longer but has been told to continue the full course of tablets. He has had some friends over the last few days so that has picked him up a bit.

Chemo recommenced on Friday so he only had a 2 day delay in treatment.
However after them building the blood levels up they have certainly dived again with the chemo.

Blood levels over the last few days are:
Haemaglobin - 9 Apr - 95 / 10 Apr - 102 / 11 Apr - 111 / 12 Apr - 104
White Cell count - 9 Apr - 14.5 / 10 Apr - 16.9 / 11 Apr - 7.5 / 12 Apr - 2.6
Platelets - 9 Apr - 237 / 10 Apr - 239 / 11 Apr - 249 / 12 Apr - 221
Neutrophils - 9 Apr - 6.53 / 10 Apr - 13.15 / 11 Apr - 6.95 / 12 Apr - 1.77

Until next time........