Update #50. Day +33. Day leave, to night leave, to back in hospital

Since last update Lauren has had a few more days "gate leave" and was fantastic for her to spend Friday and Saturday night at the unit. Sunday night saw her return to the ward as one of her kidney readings is going the wrong way and they've put it down to a chemical reaction from the combination of drugs she's on - particularly from the drug for the suspected fungal infection. She's been on hydration through the night on Sunday, Monday and tonight as she's now drinking enough through the day herself, but the readings were still declining until this mornings reading. One of the expected hiccups along the way. She's been surprisingly well and I think the leave from the hospital is actually helping her spirits soar. Although we've stopped taking her out too much.

One of our early blogs when we arrived in Sydney was the other Adelaide girl who was in the next room at the time was going home soon after a successful transplant - well she may be going home this week, although she's now got Shingles. So we're not going to push it with the field trips too much. You just don't know.

The good news is Lauren hasn't had a full blown fever for a long while now which has helped with her feeling so well. She challenged one of the nurses to a singstar competition the other day. Lauren won the first song, Tina won the second, so no doubt a playoff brewing. She wanted to stay in and continue the challenge rather than leave the hospital (I think the drugs are now playing with her mind), but thankfully the nurse had a talk to give at a meeting and had to go.

Hb 89
WBC 3.50
PLT 130
N 1.7