Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Drew was up and into his schoolwork early this morning, before the other boys even went to school. I think his theory was, if he got it done he would have all day to play the playstation. Unfortunately, when he got up his black spot on his lip was bigger and blacker, so when I rang the hospital they said to bring him up and he would probably need platelets, which he did. There was also a problem with his clotting factor in his blood, so they wanted to take more blood but from his arm so it was a clean sample with nothing else mixed in. When it came time to take the blood, Drew wasn't having a bar of it - they called Dr Frank, who agreed to take the blood from Drew's port, but if it was still high they would have to take it from his arm. It was still high, but lower than before, so they let us go home, as Drew's neutrophils are zero it won't be to long before we are back.