Pretty Good Day, Overall

White Blood Count - 220 cells/microliter
Absolute Neutrophil Count - 70 cells/microliter
Segmented neutrophils - 30.1%
Band Neutrophils - 1.4%
Lymphocytes - 35.6%
Monocytes - 20.5%
Eosinophils - 4.1%
Basophils - 1.4%
Metaphils - 1.4%
Myeloblast - 1.4%

Cael actually had a descent day today. That is, if you don't count the very beginning and the very end. He cried the entire time in the breathing treatment this morning, and he just fell back asleep in his treatment. I have given up hope that he will get used to these treatments and sleep through them all. We will just have to deal with it all until he gets to stop them. They want him to engraft before they even think about stopping the treatments. One doctor was thinking that he might be considered engrafted sometime next week. 

The rest of the day was pretty good. He was so happy, like our normal baby. At one point, he was about to fall asleep, but suddenly got a second wind of energy, and just sat there smiling and having fun. He would raise his shoulders up and get a huge grin on his face and just tense up his whole body. It was so stinkin' cute! He also had fun playing with Adam for awhile. As you can see, he was having a lot of fun. You can even see his top two teeth! He has 2 on top and 2 on bottom, now. I think there might even be 2 more coming in on the bottom. Of course that doesn't help his discomfort right now. 

The schedule is working very well for his afternoon nap. He sleeps so well through that one. Then he gets his bath (more of a wipe down with wash cloths...I guess a sponge bath?) and falls asleep around 7:00 - 7:15. It seems kind of early to me, but that is just when he wants to sleep. They are supposed to weigh at bed time, and he is always asleep at 8:00 when they come in. They always say they can wait until he wakes up again, and are surprised when I say that he won't wake up again until morning. Is 7:00 really early for bedtime? If he didn't have the breathing treatments, he would probably sleep from 7:00 pm - 7:00 am. I don't know if he is just a really good sleeper, or if he sleeps too much. Oh well...I'm just going to be happy that he sleeps through the night still. Especially with them coming in every 4 hours to take his temp and blood pressure. I think he still hasn't gotten used to the daylight savings. So 7:00 pm probably still seems later to him. I can't imagine many babies who deal well with the time change.

Hoping for tomorrow to be another day like today. I missed my happy baby, and I loved seeing him again today.