Saturday, 26 September 2009 - Day +47

Drew woke up quite chirpy today, temperature still sitting around mid to high 38's. He ate reasonably well today and didn't vomit at all. The Dietitian is concerned that he has lost 10% of his weight and wants to put an NG tube back in, we have until Tuesday to show that his weight is going in the right direction, funnily enough he didn't seem to concerned about it. Dr Drew and I practised putting cannulas into a mandarin today and trying to extract juice. The extraction part didn't work to well. We went through all the different equipment used and he seemed quite OK with all that, we taped the cannula into the mandarin and showed him that its not actually the needle that stays in your arm but a little soft plastic tube - I'll keep working on it. By the time the late afternoon came around Drew had no energy and his temperature was up around 39.3. Back on antibiotics from yesterday and an anti fungal medication in addition to the one he is already on. White cell count dipped again, I didn't find out the exact numbers to day.