T+19: No Improvement in Blood Counts

Slightly disappointing results this morning: Kay's white cell count remains 0.4 and her platelet count is dropped to 28. Better is that her red cell count has risen ever so slightly, so maybe a blood transfusion can be avoided.

Kay has spent all day feeling nauseous (spell checked!) and has unfortunately just been sick again. She's a bit down from the high of making dance videos, but so far its just a bit of a dark cloud in an otherwise blue sky. The nurse is checking whether to put Kay back on the antiemetic (also spell checked) drug again. We'll just have to see where this takes us.

When I got here this afternoon Marion was in bed with Kay, under the blankets. She's been suffering from the cold at night for the last few nights and now is feeling it during the day too. On the other hand I'm walking around in shirt sleeves, so I one of us is well screwed up. Hopefully she's not getting sick or anything nasty. I was going to recommend that she run up and down stairs a few times, but she's dragging around a few extra kilos as well at the moment so I think that that idea will be treated as a non-starter.

We had a minor outbreak of panic a few hours ago when we realized that we were down to our last bottle of alcoholic mouthwash and that tomorrow the shops will be shut (Ascension - (spell checked!)). The clear threat to Kay's health from poor oral hygene and to our mental well-being from de-toxing got Marion out of bed and moving pretty quickly. She's now on her way back with a few bottles of Sauvignon Blanc (not spell checked, I know that one by heart) and, hopefully, feeling warmer. I guess that there's a lesson in this somewhere...