*9:30 a.m. Bennett’s ANC is 2,244 from 984! He has 6.6 WBC from 4.1 and 34 neutrophils from 24. The neupogen is working! Hopefully his body will hold unto these and his bone marrow will make a bunch more. His hemoglobin is great at 10.1 from 9.8 and platelets are 151 from 138! His temp late last night was 99.1 and it is 98.4 this morning. He hasn’t woke up yet this morning so not sure how he feels yet.

*12:00 p.m. Bennett had a head/neck vascular CT scan at 11:00. They used contrast dye this helps to see images of his blood vessels, arteries, veins, and bones. We pray that we receive good results and nothing serious. We woke him up for this so he is now eating his breakfast of pancakes and cereal.

Dr.’s have decided to stop the antibiotic vancomycin since he hasn’t had a fever for 48 hours. They will continue the other two: meropenum and fluconazole. Dr.’s have decided to stop the iv caffeine too. Also, they want to stop the iv neuopogen to see what his ANC will do on it’s own. So far this morning, his headache is about a 3!

*6:00 p.m. The CT scan showed the same results as before, the same as the last one they took 11 days ago. There must of been confusion about the scan because his oncology Dr. said it was not a vascular scan to view blood vessels, arteries, etc. It was took look at his sinuses again? This is frustrating. She indicated the scan showed thickening and lining in his maxillary sinuses and the sinuses above his eyes. They thought it still would show inflammation and they just wanted to see if it had gotten worse. Dr. is expecting the continuous antibiotics will thin and drain this out. Once a day, since surgery, he has coughed up mucus which is good news, means it is draining instead of staying blocked. I still think if nothing else is wrong, this has to be the problem causing the headache.

His head pain was better today but about an hour ago, it was worse and he rated it an 8 so they gave him oxycodine. He hadn’t had any all day. This is the one he can take every 4 hours. He did have the oxycontin at 8:00 a.m. and takes every 12 hours.

Great news! He will be discharged tomorrow IF he doesn’t have a fever and/or his ANC doesn’t drop 500 or below in the morning. Please pray this all works out and more importantly that it stays that way at home over the weekend. Dr will send him home on oral pain medicine and antibiotics. She thought it may take several weeks for him to feel good and possibly months before the sinusitis is gone. (this is not very encouraging).