Happy Thanksgiving!

White Blood Count - 2910 cells/microliter
Absolute Neutrophil Count - 1180 cells/microliter
Segmented neutrophils - 33.9%
Band Neutrophils - 6.8%
Lymphocytes - 13.6%
Monocytes - 37.3%
Eosinophils - 1.7%
Basophils - 0%
Metaphils - 0%
Myeloblast - 0%

What a great Thanksgiving! Cael's cell count has rocketed up and we got some great news today. We will be able to leave the hospital on Monday, as long as nothing drastically changes for the worse. We will be required to stay in the Houston area for another 2 months or so while we go to clinic. I think tomorrow we will be talking with the nurses about what to expect when we leave. I guess we will get a lot of literature on things to do and not do, and we will go over all the "rules".

Tomorrow we will start switching over his medications from IV to oral. They want to make sure he will take and keep down his oral meds before he leaves the hospital. They will also stop the GCSF (a med that helps the cells multiply) on Saturday and make sure his ANC stays up. Then the ribavirin breathing treatment will be stopped on Thursday. Yay! As long as everything stays good, we will be packing up and leaving on Monday. I am beyond excited to get out of the hospital. We are certainly counting down the minutes at this point.

We had several visitors today, and they all brought food! We are going to be eating turkey until we leave on Monday. Adam's aunt and uncle came in the morning, during which time Cael was very calm and quiet. He just wanted to be held most of the time. But by the time they left, he was being pretty playful. Before they came he was a bundle of energy. I got a few cute pics before he decided to be too un-smiley. My boss, Ross,  from Austin also came by in the evening. Cael was pretty good for him. Even though he hasn't seen him much, he was very playful and unshy around him. I'm glad to see him like that.

I have been working on a few little projects while Cael naps and after he goes to bed. Adam's aunt got me some yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks, and a book of how to knit. Between the book and You Tube, I figured out how to knit a scarf and crochet a hat for Cael. Here are my final products. They took me WAY too long to finish, but that is because I am a bit of a perfectionist. I think I redid the scarf at least 4 times before I was happy with the width and the way it was looking. I would make about 10"-12" then undo the whole thing and start over. The hat wasn't quite so bad. I think I only had to undo that to change the size 2 or 3 times. lol. I think the scarf and hat turned out very nicely. Cael doesn't seem too sure about them though. He just likes to pull the hat off and yank on the scarf. :)