Tuesday, 8 September 2009 - Day +29

Drew slept in until 9.45am this morning and woke up to another NPA, he wasn't thrilled in the slightest about that. Just after that was finished the Dermatologist Emma, arrived for Drew's skin biopsy. This involved a needle in his upper arm for local anaesthetic, then a thin cylindrical tube which bit a little chunk of skin out, and then a stitch. Fortunately, being well seasoned now, I asked them to sedate him, which they did and we all got through it fine, especially Drew, and the beauty of the sedation is that it is an amnesiac drug, so Drew doesn't remember a thing - maybe we could use that for the next NPA. His test results from the NPA and phlegm again tested positive for RSV, and his chest X-Ray yesterday also showed a little bit of cloudiness, which may be another infection or maybe just mucus. After the drug wore off today, Drew was really crabby and wasn't co-operative with the physiotherapist who came to see him, we also had a tiff, by afternoon he came good and was eating, drinking and his chirpy self. Two Respiratory Specialists came to see him and explained he needs to try and cough, so they are watching him very closely and he may need to have a 'lavage', where he will go under a general anaesthetic and they have a look in his lungs and flush them out with saline, so they can get a sample from the bottom of his lungs to check for other germs - lets hope we don't have to go there. He also tested positive for another bug, but the antibiotic he was put on yesterday should cover that one too. Shower today consisted of a bath in bed - that was fun for the back -not. White cell count dipped slightly as did his neutrophils to 0.3. We're still smiling (most of the time).