Still staying... Day 293 01SEP09

Joshua's counts are down and so is his temperature. Good and bad together. His ANC is down to 294 and his platelets are down to 50. This is the point where Renee and I would be more than happy to put Joshua inside a padded suit to keep him from bumping himself.

Strangely when Joshua's counts are at their lowest he seems to have the most energy and the uncontrollable desire to do outrageously dangerous things with anything that has wheels attached to it. Pole surfing anyone?

This is day 2 of the current steroids cycle and the Prednisone monster has arrived as mean as ever. Its liking packing Godzilla and his older brother into a seven year old body. Thankfully he has not yet mastered the art of breathing fire. Luckily this is only a five day cycle and should have the actual benefit of pumping up his counts.

We are unsure when they might release Josh to come home but the clock is ticking away towards Friday. We were all bummed to see that Demetri was back in the hospital this afternoon with a fever. We all hope he cools out quickly.

Jarrod and I spent the afternoon at the hospital hanging out. We managed to get a good walk in with Renee and Joshua in between rain sprinkles. Later we came home and made a delicious dinner and spent some time chillaxin with each other.