Day 8

Last night Holly's new morphine side effect became apparent. She is having very vivid dreams which involve her either moaning or shouting out frequently throughout the night. The has caused me to nearly have heart failure each time she does it as I jump up and attempt to soothe her, only to find her sleeping peacefully.

She is again better today, and the docs are pleased with her progress. She has had an unfortunate time with her new nose tube today and has managed to cough it up twice. It hurts more now to put it down as her throat is very sore but she has coped really well with it and been very brave. She did, however, shout at our lovely nurse putting it in that the nurse that did it last week was much quicker! Holly was very apologetic afterwards...

Although she slept through the afternoon she has been awake and even talking a bit this morning and all evening, and I can see my normal Holly is starting to return. Her hair (which had grown back all over as short fuzz) is coming out. She looks like she has a flat mohican as she has rubbed all the hair off the sides from lying down. She has also lost all her eyelashes and some of her eyebrows.

Although all her blood counts are very very low her neutrophil count has gone from 0.00 (which it has been for the last week) to 0.01. Only a small increase but hopefully the start of the upward climb. Now we only have to wait for them to get to 1.00 and she can some out of isolation!