Monday, 31 August 2009 - Day +21

Drew's temperature has been stable today, but his cough has continued and is pretty hacking. Drew has been taking an antiviral drug called ribaviran and the Drs have arranged for him to have an immunoglobin drug in conjunction with the ribaviran to hopefully prevent Drew getting pneumonia, which he has shown no signs of yet, but is susceptible to. The drug which doesn't even have a name at this stage, had to be signed off in America for Drew to be able to receive and as they were asleep, that won't happen until tomorrow. His white count went up slightly but not as high as it has previously been and the neutrophils are still sitting on 0.2. No bone pain as yet (I probably shouldn't have written that because now he'll no doubt get some), but he did need platelets today.