Tuesday, 29 September 2009 - Day +50

Drew woke up today to see me sitting across from him in his room, which made him happy. Temperature still there, surprise surprise. The CT scan didn't reveal anything and they took some extra blood to run some different tests. Drew's arm where the PICC is was really hurting today so they organised an ultrasound of it which revealed a blood clot, which in turn meant the PICC had to come out. There went the access line, so he had to have a cannula put in, the PICC pulled out and a little cannula put in his leg to inject the anti clotting medicine - it's like OMG what else can we put this poor child through. Drew was eager to have pizza for dinner but due to the above procedures being done 6 hours after Drew had last eaten at 4.30pm, under 'happy gas' he wasn't able to eat. Drew asked wasn't there an easier way (he was desperate for that pizza) and when I explained to him that yes we just put on the patch and an hour later put in the cannula he said he'd do it. Dr Michelle and I had serious doubts it could go through with it, but he did without a drama, all three procedures. The last one hurt and then Drew wanted me to do the injection into the cannula, that stung too. I WAS SOOOOO PROUD OF HIM and so were all the nurses on the ward, Dr Michelle, Lucy and all the other people who heard about it. He had his pizza (which after all that was pretty ordinary) and banana, grapes, strawberries and cream for dessert and went to bed late but happy.