Just wanted to keep you posted on Leo's progress. He's feeling better, and the doctors have determined it was a bacterial infection of sorts that caused the inflammation in his tongue. He hasn't picked up any fevers which is really good. The swelling has come down significantly since this weekend and he can talk again and is eating fine. They treated him with a whole bunch of antibiotics and steroids to bring the swelling down and it worked well. I'm hoping he will be home by the long weekend, but it's all in the doctors' hands at this point.
His blood counts have not come up at all. His WBC is still at 0.2 and the other counts have been pretty low as well. He has needed several transfusions over the last few days. The doctors have started to discuss that they may need to infuse more cells into his system if his counts don't begin to recover soon, but they haven't made it clear as to whether it would be his mom's cells again, or the cord blood, or if we'll start looking for a full match again. This is still in the preliminary stages, so as we hear more I will let you know as well.
As some people have been asking, I just wanted to let you know that it's ok to visit Leo in the hospital, but obviously not if you have any kind of sickness in your system. Kids are ok to visit too as he is not on the isolation side of the unit.
I will let you know if anything else comes up. But for now lets just keep our fingers crossed that he can go home soon and stay out of the hospital for a while! :)
My name is Bernadette Rivera and my husband, Leo was dignosed with Leukemia in 2007. I've decided to create this blog so that you will all have the most current information on Leo and what's going on with his condition and his transplant. I hope this will be an informative (and maybe even entertaining) tool to keep you posted on his progress.
July 2009
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