Sunday, 8th November

It's lovely to see Jimmy improving more with each day.  He was much more talkative this afternoon and evening and has started his home coming planning...he recons he doesn't need to go to high care and is going to discuss this with Prof Novitzky tomorrow morning and nothing I could say about waiting until he is well enough to come home so there are no relapses would help.  Eish!! I'm just glad I can trust Prof.

He had a temperature spike this morning at 6am but this came down again and then stayed down for the remainder of the day.  His platelets have dropped a little further so he had a platelet transfusion this evening and what a palava as he has no veins left.  Prof Wilcox arrived for his check-up and offered to put the line in and the only place he could do it was in Jimmy's ankle.  He mentioned that he is going to discuss with Prof Novitzky that he thinks Jimmy should have a port put in and there was a lot of mumbling and grumbling coming from Jimmy about this.  Once the platelet transfusion was done they used the same line for a bag of potassium which burned Jimmy like hell.  So they stopped it and put up a bottle of Perfalgan and waited for this to run through.  It was nice and quick acting and he was more comfortable within 5 minutes and then he went back to getting the potassium.  He will also be on Neupogen injections for a few days now to boost his white blood cell count.

I had a lovely breakfast this morning with Ewen and the folks and then got stuck in around the house seeing to all the things that have not been done during the last 10 days.  I'm not sure if I actually slept well in between all the stupid nightmares or whether my body is finally adapting to the stress levels and hospital visits but I felt much better today and feel like I can definitely face the week head on.

We are now half way through matric finals with three weeks to go and  Emma starts her final exams on Tuesday so wishing her all the best. Go girls!!