T+115: At Home, White Cell Count Up

I'll keep this short because I've got work to do. After all the hassle on Saturday, yesterday Kay was allowed home. Her condition had improved quite a bit overnight, possibly due to the antibiotics that were started on Saturday afternoon. She still had a bit of a fever, but it could be controlled by paracetamol. And in the event she didn't show any signs of it at home - but then of course it was probably being controlled by the paracetamol.

Kay did the Jeckyll & Hyde thing again when she got home, the transformation from a sick child who sleeps all day into one who wants to ride their mountain bike (in the rain), makes soap from a kit, walks up and down stairs and dances to Justin something-or-other. Unsurprisingly she was complaining bitterly this morning about having muscle pain.

Marion took her to the Catherina for today's dose of antibiotics this morning. They did a routine test of her blood and told Marion that Kay's white cell count is 1.0 !!!!! This is a big deal, we've not seen such a high figure for many weeks and it means that her system is starting to recover even before she gets the stem cell boost.

Tomorrow she has to be back in Nijmegen for the antiviral treatment, but I think that there's a good chance that the move to be based at home will go ahead and that we'll be able to check out of the McD house for a while. We'll see, we continue to live from hour to hour.

For some strange reason I couldn't sleep again last night and Marion was fading in and out of sleep. Typically, we also ended up killing five mosquitos in our bedroom during the night. Yeh, you know how that goes: you just start to fall asleep after hours of lying awake and zzzzziiiippppp, a mosquito flies past your ear. We killed them by burning their ears off with rude words.