Isolation again

Bit of an update over the last few days.

I got to go home on 7/1/20 which was lovely to get home and see my children. I still have the Hickman line in so I was very cautious of that as it’s still held in with stitches and I have two wires dangling. Also I need to be careful it doesn’t get infected as that happens often. Archie was obsessed with looking at my ‘poorly’ and was very careful and aware of it when giving me a cuddle. When I was discharged I was given an outpatients appointment for Thursday 9th to have my bloods checked and to be reviewed by the doctor.

One day at home yesterday and I think I was quite good and rested quite a bit – well for me I did anyway.

9th January came to Hallamshire for Blood reviews. Surprise surprise, my neutrophils have dropped to 0.29 and I am being kept in because I am at risk of infections. I did expect this but it’s still upsetting when you’re told. I tried to prepare Archie for this as well by telling him I was going back to hospital today so he knew but I’m not sure how much he listened to me.

The stem cell transfusion I had on the 6th will help me to recover from the chemo but will take roughly 10 days to start to work. So for now it’s back in to an isolation room till my neutrophils rise to higher than 1.