Friday, 28 August 2009 - Day +18

Drew's cough that he has had since the beginning of the week, seems to be getting more phlegmy, rather than just a dry cough and his runny nose is back. hmm. He had to have a mucus (snot) sample taken (they stick a thin little tube up his nose and the other end is attached to suction, to suck it out - beautiful). Unfortunately, they didn't get enough to run the tests, so he'll have a rerun tomorrow. Mid morning he developed a temperature of 38.5, so antibiotics were started, and the other antibiotics he had been on in case he had a skin infection, which proved negative were stopped. He was also started on Tamiflu in case it was the dreaded swine flu returned. Despite the above Drew was in good spirits today, he beat me in bowling 3 games to nil, finishing off with 3 strikes just to rub it in. He did a fair bit of school work too. His white cell count dropped slightly again, but his neutrophils stayed steady at 0.2.