Day + 18

We have been here for 4 weeks as of today. Four weeks is a long time and we still have about 2 weeks left. Awesome, amazing, fantastic news today. Clays counts are on the rise. The magical white blood is at 500 and the ANC (absolute Nutrifil Count) is at 200. The ANC needs to be at 500 to be considered engrafment. That means we are progressing and he is doing great. The docs decided since he hadnt used his PCA, continuous morphine pump, in 3 days they wanted to take it away. The drawback of that is the withdrawls. He has been really tired and grumpy today. He has lived the day hiding in his blanket like a turtle. The syptoms should be gone by morning and hopefully his counts will be even higher than today.