Afternoon Home Leave

Last night we were moved to a room in the Teenage Cancer Trust unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital as this is where there was a free bed. This unit is very nice to stay in. Niamh has here own room which has all sorts of gadgets for controling the lighting. You can ask the lights to cycle through sorts of colours.

http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/what-we-do/specialist-services/units/birmingham-childrens-hospital/

Niamh had some trouble getting to sleep but she did sleep well. Daddy not so well, but not too badly.

Today they let us know that one of the blood cultures from Niamh's central line showed an infection, I think with Enterococcus. This could either be that one of her lumen is colonised with the bacteria or because the sample was contaminated after it was taken.

They have taken some more cultures from Niamh's central line and started her on a new antibiotic Teicoplanin.

We have home leave this afternoon but Niamh has to come back in tonight for the antibiotics. 3 doses in first 24 hours. After that is is once a day at lunch time.

We should know more tomorrow or Monday.