A small update

Hi everyone...
eli still in hospital, and we are definitely experiencing a big rollercoaster ride...
Eli was pretty yuk yesterday, with a fair bit of grizzling and a couple of tantrums (thanks to glennys for the tigger...its definitely a tanty buster!!)...eli loves it!
today he was much better within himself, although his pulse jumped up to between 160-180 again (over it now!!), and his bp remained pretty high...so the dr's ordered another ECG which didnt show too much.
Unfortunately, eli's white cell counts and neutrophills have skyrocketed to 38 and 32 respectively which is indicating something is going pear shaped again. Dr Karin is on leave at the moment, so Dr Keith (another transplant guru) reckons it may be yet another infection although the difficulty in this is that he hasnt had a fever at all. So, basically they need to discount infection with more blood cultures and a chest xray to rule out cooties like pneumonia. If they dont find anything, it means that they will need to look again at his leukeamia perhaps having returned or 'relapse'. Pete and i are both hopeful that it is an infection of some sort and can be helped with more antibiotics, but we have another 24-48hours before we will know anything. On the up side, as i said, eli has been really good today within himself, its just that the fact that his counts are so high which is now a new major concern for us.
Anyhoo...best fly and get to bed...
luv to all
mum, dad and eli
xox