Busy Monday....

Well the fever stayed down!! We made it to clinic with a low grade fever of 99.8. It came down all the way to 97.5 today. Today his red blood count was at 5 and platelets were at 7. So he needed both blood and platelets. Since his blood count was so low and they only give half of a unit at a time he will need to go tomorrow for another blood transfusion. We haven't seen a rash on him since Friday and we were wondering if that was a bad thing or not. Grimley said that with a blood count of 5 there will be no rash and a lot of times the rash will go away and come back again. It doesn't mean that the transplant is not working. There are plenty of other signs,like his feet are sensitive, to tell him that things are going in the right direction. They did take another sample from Austin's nose to check to see if he still has the flu. Grimley also had them take a blood sample to send out for his trial to see if he is grafting yet. It can take up to about a week. He said possibly we will hear back on Friday but maybe not until Monday. We didn't get much sleep last night with Austin tossing and turning, checking for fever, getting Austin to drink, and Austin being in pain. He finally fell into a deep sleep about 6:00 am and I had to get him up at 7:30. Poor guy. On the way to clinic he fell asleep. During clinic he couldn't get comfortable and acted like he was in pain so they gave him a small amount of morphine to take the edge off. He finally then got comfortable and has pretty much been asleep since then. We hit the bad rain on the way home and got home about 5:15. He is now asleep on the couch. He hasn't drank or eaten much today so I am hoping he wakes up hungry and thirsty. We had back to clinic tomorrow and we might have to borrow Pop's boat to get there if this rain doesn't stop. Austin would enjoy that. LOL

Elizabeth