Cycle 3 - day 21

Niamh had a mixed day today. She had some really great visitors who all helped to make a her feel a bit better.

Niamh also had a very exciting move from her isolation room to Bay 2. She put on her scary cow mask and made growling noises at all the nurses and clinical staff on the way past.

On the whole Niamh was quite tired today and needed extra oxygen for her lunchtime sleep. She has a new oxygen mask with two little prongs which go into her nose. She doesn't love it but she doesn't hate it as much as the full face mask, she really didn't like that one.

Today she was sick 3 times requiring 2 NG tubes to be passed. On the 3rd time we thought we'd give her a rest and kept her NG feeds off for the night. Auntie Caitlin will get the pleasure of helping with placing a new NG tube tomorrow morning.

The Doctors seem to think that niamh has a respiritory virus (a cold a guess) and this is causing her oxygen levels to drop. We hope that as her blood counts improve she will start to feel a bit better. She did have a very peaceful night's sleep, and so did daddy.

Today her blood counts were:

Hemoglobin = 9.9

White Cell Count = 4.4

Platelets = 73

Neutrophils = 2.1

CRP = 5

Niamh's CRP ( a measure of infection) has dropped to 5 and as she doesn't have a temperature she has stopped all of her antibiotics and her anti fungal. This is good news as these medicines are quite hard on the body and can have many side affects.